Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Penn coach George Breen said during the last day on Saturday, but he might not have been telling the whole story. The biggest reason for the Quakers' success had to be the superlative performance of senior Bob Atkinson, the only man to win three races and by a wide margin top individual the swimmer at the meet. Atkinson dropped three full seconds to take the 220-yd. individual medley in record time, repeated his fine swim in the 400-yd. version, also setting a record, and then surprised everybody by winning the 200-yd. backstroke as overwhelming favorite and defending...
...minus, despite anything the professors may tell the class, (such as, "We are prepared to give all of you A's if you master the material.") is that it creates an atmosphere where students are reluctant to help each other, afraid that they will give their classmates a crucial margin of understanding. The environment of students fighting each other in subtle and unsubtle ways is detrimental to academia. The biggest danger from excessive competition in Chem 20 is that it may create a student who is unlikely to become a humane and considerate physician...
...Wolfpack passed the Crimson in the final event to win the battle for second-place by an incredibly slim half-point margin...
Despite this Harvard concluded its finest Easterns ever with a flurry of new record breaking performances, and the slender margin by which it was finally edged out for second detracts very little from another excellent team effort by coach Don Gambril's small nucleus of talented swimmers...
...coalition's victory -by a thin but workable margin of about four seats in the 144-member Lower House or Dail-was probably the result less of specific issues than of a widespread feeling that after 16 straight years the Fianna Fáil had been in office long enough...