Word: margined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maguire has pledged himself to do all be can to have the plan put before the voters at the next state election. In a heated referendum in which Dean Landis and other Harvard professors fought Cambridge politicians, the Plan for a city manager was rejected by a slim margin last year...
Kirkland, which shaded out Winthrop by a narrow margin in first downs to win the coveted championship last year, is going to have another tough struggle with the Puritans this Fall. The Deacons have a squad of 32 while Winthrop has turned out 25 strong...
...Johnny Goodman, one down, in the National Amateur semifinals, made the 1938 Walker Cup team on the strength of that. The U. S. lost the Walker Cup, but it was not Bud's fault. He won his match, against English Champion Frank Pennink, by the unheard-of margin of 12 up. This spring he lambasted most of the pros in the business in the National Open, got upset when one of his iron shots cold-cocked a spectator, missed the big triple tie for first place by one stroke. Before last week's play started...
Bilbo's man Johnson won by a solid margin, 162,688-to-136,264. Pat Harrison, unembarrassed by jibes at his constant switching, was now embarrassed in the way a politician best understands it. Apparently faded were his hopes of appearing at the 1940 Democratic National Convention in a good trading position as Mississippi's Favorite Son, for now Bilbo and Johnson will have first say in naming Mississippi's 18 delegates. And "The Man," long-standing Third Termite for Franklin Roosevelt, could lounge happily on the green satin chairs of his lonesome 25-room mansion near...
Last year, however, Yardlings voted against class elections after several years of agitation against a system of voting for officers when no Freshman could know more than one out of five of his 1000 classmates. Elections were voted down in a referendum by a 432 to 179 margin and the Union Committee stayed in office for the rest of the year...