Word: margined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conducted a second and smaller vote to see if the summer's industrial unrest has changed public opinion. According to this follow-up poll, which has not been attempted in any of the colleges, the nation as a whole still supports President Roosevelt, but by a much smaller margin than formerly...
...answer is probably "no." Harvard was a little ahead of Bates in every department, but the margin of difference was unpleasantly small. After the first quarter, in which both touchdowns were scored, the boys from Maine did things that no opening game opponent is supposed to do. In the last half Bates made 139 yards and picked up seven first downs...
...narrow margin he lost the run-off primary, but four years later he became the first Governor of Mississippi ever to serve a second term. In that term he wrecked the State's credit. In one swoop he angrily fired 179 State College officials & faculty members, remarking: "Boys, we've just hung up a new record!" So discredited was he that he refused to call a special tax session of the Legislature because its members would not first promise not to impeach him (TIME, June 22, 1931). His prime enemy was a roly-poly politician from Seminary named...
Following his company's instructions to be on the lookout for counterfeit gold bills or bills of large denominations, Manager Lyle wrote on the margin of the note he had just received the license number of the Dodge sedan: 4U-13-41. Next day he gave the bill to an employe named John Lyons, told him to take it to a nearby branch of the Corn Exchange Bank, see if it was genuine. Lyons was told it was. Three days later the bank turned the bill over to the New York office of the Department of Justice...
Last year the Oriental haggle began with a ridiculous Japanese bid of 50 million gold yen,† offered through the Manchukuo Government. Russia countered with an asking price of 250,000,000 rubles. By fits and starts the margin narrowed, between intervals of "deadlock," to a bid of 150,000,000 yen, an asked of 190,000,000 gold rubles. Last week the semi-official Rengo News Agency announced that the agreed price for the Chinese Eastern was 170,000,000 yen ($50,728,000 Roosevelt), plus Soviet Russia's recognition of Manchukuo...