Word: margined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...narrow margin of 21 votes Harvard College clung to its traditional Republican moorings according to final figures in the CRIMSON presidential poll conducted yesterday...
...felt by the Council that since Dubiel had been an elected member rather than an appointed member of the Council, his successor should represent, as nearly as possible, the choice of the College as expressed in the last vote. White just missed election by a margin of 10 votes last year. He was the seventh man on the ballot in the number of votes received, the first six receiving places on the Council. After this most pressing of all the business before the meeting had been decided it was announced by Walter H. Page, III '37, treasurer that the collection...
...repetitious, 499-page regional novel revolving around the dwellers of the Mississippi Delta country south of New Orleans. With a central character named Sister Kalavich, a proud, self-possessed girl who bore an illegitimate son, defied her neighbors, lived alone and achieved a life of harmony with nature, Green Margins contains almost all the essentials of a good novel except a narrative to hold it together or a clearly-defined purpose that would give its episodes significance. Pursued by hearty, headstrong Mitch Holt, who makes a good living smuggling Chinese into the U. S., Sister is captured by a poetic...
...improbable happened and Maine Republicans lost, Nominee Landon would lose, too, disastrously. Worse than that, he would lose even if they won only partially, or by less than a smashing margin. Maine is normally Republican by about 30,000 votes. If, with a Presidential candidate personally enlisted in the State campaign, it failed to go Republican by that many votes or more, it would deal the candidate's prestige a tremendous blow. As Presidential campaign matters stood last week, Alf Landon could not afford to take that blow...
...restore retailers' lost profit margin Philip Morris last year tried an experiment in four States-Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia-each of which has its own cigaret tax. With every carton of 200 Philip Morrises the retailer was given an extra package of 20 free. The same result might have been accomplished by reducing the wholesale price from $6.85 to $6.23 a 1,000. but the psychological effect was different. Retailers loved the free package -15^ clear profit when sold-and they pushed Philip Morris sales...