Word: margined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record of 47 sec. flat. A Pitt sprinter pulled up lame in the 220-yd. semi-finals but Columbia had missed a third place in the broad jump by ⅜ in. By the end of the afternoon Pitt and Columbia were not two points apart and the ⅜-in. margin proved crucial. In the determining 220-yd. final, last event on the program, Columbia's Ben Johnson zoomed through to his third I. C. 4-A title, but Pitt's Edgar Mason placed second to give Pitt the team title with 30½ points to Columbia...
Harvin, with 106 votes, earned his place by a precarious margin of a single vote over Charles Lee Burwell of Millwood, Virginia, while Richard Peter Hedblom of Cambridge, last year's Freshman president, was fifth with 95 votes, and Cleveland Amory of Milton was sixth with...
Defensive lapses by the Varsity lacrosse team in the firs half gave Yale the necessary margin to hand the Crimson its first defeat in New England, by a score of 10-8, in New Haven on Saturday. Despite the loss the Stahleymen annexed the New England Lacrosse Championship...
...gloomy ending to what had appeared one of the brightest seasons; for Harvard in its early races twice beat Tech and once Columbia. At the Eight-Sided Regatta at Princeton a week ago the first disappointment came as Tech gained revenge on Harvard, winning by a narrow margin after they had an easy first heat and the Crimson had been forced to go all out against Yale in their heat...
...There are no margin rules on the London Stock Exchange, because its members are too intelligent to need protection. Their freedom from restriction (and this applies to Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels) brought them business from residents of the U. S., who lived in a foolish country where it was necessary to put up 55% margin on the purchase of stocks bought on speculative account. London only wanted 20% or 25% and, in many cases, ran contango accounts with no margin at all.* So London took all these commissions from New York and, by a process that is a little obvious...