Word: margined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second year in a row, the Dartmouth Indian cagers proved themselves too tough for the rest of the League teams during the first part of the campaign and piled up a safe margin over their closest rivals. This year they went nine games before being tripped by the Big Red, and last night they also bowed to the Columbia Lions, leaving the Mooneyites only one game behind the Green, but without a mathematical chance of overtaking them...
...pole, suddenly rushed up,*** swept past the leaders, Porter's Mite and Bessie Franzheim's Xalapa Clown. When the dust had settled, 50,000 gasping spectators realized that a filly had won the Santa Anita Derby for the first time and had won it by the largest margin ever-five lengths. Co-favorites Porter's Mite and Impound had fought it out indeed, but for third place, one length behind Xalapa Clown...
...spite of an eleventh-hour reassurance by Governor Saltonstall that "the bill would not give me the slightest bit of embarrassment" the forces of opposition failed to overcome a three-vote margin which denied the repealer a third hearing in the lower chamber last week...
...friend, will become as rigid as the face of a fish." Its narrator is a young teacher, who learns that under the State he must criticize his pupils' essays not for saying that Negroes are animals or that war is glorious, but only for having an untidy left margin or the word colonies mis spelled. At military camp one of his pupils is killed, and the causes and consequences of that death are grave indeed. But death, concludes the author, is better than life in such a world. When he reads about death in the papers, his mind cries...
...mile combine got off to an early lead, but Manhattan forged ahead to win by a 40 yard margin. It was only in the final lap, however, that Ros Brayton, Crimson anchorman, was hiped by Curtis Giddings...