Word: marginals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...frazzle in the early going. In the second half, the Harvard defense summoned up a truly classic inspirational effort and blocked two Oregon field goal attempts and repulsed another sally deep into their won territory. Harvard's star player Arnold Horween kicked the extra point to provide the margin of victory and Sadow persuaded his mother to name his younger brother Arnold after...
...YEARS AGO: Cambridge, Nov. 22, 1952. Harvard suffered its worst defeat at the hands of Yale since 1884, losing by a 41-14 margin...
...treaties now face a far tougher test in the U.S. Senate, where the victory must come by the same 2-to-1 margin. Conservative opposition has forced postponement of a vote on ratification until next year and left the White House worrying about whether, even then, it can muster the required 67 votes...
...final vote showed, members of Congress have grown more reluctant to support the maritime industry. Only three years ago, the House approved, by a 30-vote margin, a more generous version of the cargo preference bill-one that would have allotted 30% of U.S. oil imports to U.S.-flag ships. Gerald Ford vetoed that measure...
David Clem, an independent incumbent councillor who received the Real Paper's top ranking two years ago, said yesterday that "The Real Paper endorsement is helpful" and that the ranking gave him a "comfortable margin" of victory in the last election, but added that he did not think the lack of the top endorsement this year would affect his re-election chances. The Real Paper endorsement, he said, has a direct impact on only 200 to 250 votes...