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Word: marginals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Springfield led, 16-8, with four bouts left and two of their unbeatables still coming up. John Franklin (167 lbs.) and Sal D'Agostino (190 lbs.) gave Harvard one-sided wins, but Ciarmello and Blatnick did their jobs to forge the final margin...

Author: By David Clarke, | Title: Bay State Jinx Strikes Again; Chiefs Clobber Matmen, 25-14 | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

Five of the remaining six players swept their matches in three consecutive games, with the sixth winning by a 3-1 margin...

Author: By Marc E. Raven, | Title: Women's Squash Blanks Tufts In Season's Opening Matches | 12/3/1977 | See Source »

...Hooft brought the cagers to within three when he swiped the ball and was fouled on the layup, as the score stood at 18-15 midway through the half. Banks hit a pair of free throws to whittle the UMass margin down to 24-21 but it was the closest the Crimson managed to come in the half...

Author: By Robert Sidorsky, | Title: Massachusetts Spoils Crimson Hoop Openers | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

...Akron, the electorate decided by a margin of 700 votes out of nearly 60,000 cast to buy five ambulances and train paramedics in the fire department. The department had earlier refused an order by the city council to pay for the training of the paramedics, so the council put the isssue on the ballot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Going to the People | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

...white South Africa because they must have jobs?and because they are desperately needed by industry as a source of labor. Without them, the country's economy would collapse overnight. But politically their presence is an embarrassment to the government because they outnumber the whites by so wide a margin. Now, when an urban black's theoretical homeland becomes independent, he automatically becomes a citizen of that homeland?and is even dropped from the South African census figures. In reality, of course, his life is utterly unchanged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: The Defiant White Tribe | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

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