Word: margined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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BEYOND SING THE WOODS-Trygve Gulbranssen-Putnam ($2.50). The saga of a powerful Norwegian family which dominates the countryside, partly through superstition, partly through usury. Skill in narration, a lyric prose, an interesting milieu, save the novel from childishness by a narrow margin...
...voters in Tuesday's election, in indicating their preference for presidential candidates, would seem to show that the political seers who prophesied bitterly-fought campaigns and November fireworks, were smacking anticipatory lips over a highly over-rated dish. Landon emerged as the Republican choice, with a ten-to-one margin over his nearest rival, a man named Hoover. Such definite support by an Eastern state of the horse-and-buggy governor must come as a blow to those who were sure that a Western candidate would not be successful in New England...
...Department will be in the red to the extent of $15,000 at the end of the current academic year. The new fee, $10 payable on the first term bill and $10 on the third, will be sufficient to carry the Department in the future with a small margin of profit allowed...
Alan Simpson 1G, erstwhile Oxford Greyhound player, secured the margin of victory for Harvard when he made a try before half time on a pass from Peter Knapp. There was no scoring in the second half...
...past two years. Sales climbed from $5,800,000 in 1933 to more than $9,000,000 in 1935. But Colonel Phillips was not able to convert much of that gain into profits. They rose only about $123,000 above the $605,000 reported in 1933. Gross margin of profit increased, but overhead and selling expenses nearly doubled, presumably because of 5? soups...