Word: margined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...match with the Harvard Graduates, the varsity class "A" squash team was victorious by the narrow margin of 3-2 today. The most important of the contests was the one between John C. Develin '38 and Dean Chauncey. Develin finally won out, taking three games out of four. Other Harvard winners were Captain Richard D. Dorson and Alvah W. Sulloway, who defeated Lyman Olmstead and Sebert 1d. Davenport '34 respectively...
...Packers missed the League's Western Division championship by the margin of one point, having failed to kick a goal after a touchdown against the Chicago Cardinals. This year they played ten games in a row without a similar omission. The Packers lost their second game of the season, 30-to-3, against the Chicago Bears, in Green Bay's City Stadium. The humiliation was so extreme that they won every game thereafter until they clinched the Western Division championship last fortnight...
...products and types of illustration and copy. He created a department to study the costs of business getting, cut them down to about 5% of the price of each item compared to the usual 10% in mail-order houses. He discovered and concentrated on lines with the greatest profit margin: furniture, stoves, tires, men's clothes. And he developed Spiegel's two cardinal policies: 1) sell everything on credit; 2) sell more goods to fewer customers...
...despite this seeming improvement, there is one factor which only close study of the report brings to light, - namely, that the A.A. has shifted to the University the cost of compulsory physical education. Thus what stands for a small margin of profit might well be taken for a twenty thousand dollar loss...
...extra point, kicked off, tackled the receiver so hard he fumbled, recovered the ball, caught a pass to put it on Nebraska's 11-yd. line, from where Pitt scored three plays later. All this, happening within the last two minutes of the first half, gave Pitt the margin statistics showed it deserved against one of the country's strongest defensive teams...