Word: marginals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...election in Ann Arbor. Van Hattum was among 20 men and wom en who, unknown to them, lived just outside city limits and should not have voted at all. Any one of those 20 votes could have proved decisive, since Democrat James Wheeler defeated Republican Louis Belcher by a margin of one (10,660 to 10,659). County Judge James Kelley thought he could establish the winner of the election simply by asking the 20 illegal voters how they cast their ballots. The first 15 called before him dutifully answered, but when Van Hattum appeared she tartly replied: "I have...
That they did, and boy did it hurt. By a 20-7 margin, the Tigers created a three-way logjam atop the Ivy standings and in so doing, made Harvard look sick at home for the third time this season...
There is beer, liquor and wine, and someone in attendance who can give you the play-by-play of the 1925 Harvard-Princeton encounter, a contest, incidentally, in which the Tigers triumphed by a 36-0 margin...
...relative military power throughout the world has peaked and is declining. We no longer possess that substantial strategic superiority which in the past provided us with such a significant margin of overall military power that we could with confidence, protect our interests worldwide. Henceforth we will have to chart our course with much greater precision and calculate out risks much more cautiously...
Dartmouth thoroughly dominated play in the second half, scoring early and then late in the period. Only outstanding defensive efforts by Jay Joseph and Sid Anderson kept the final margin to a respectable...