Word: margineers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wide divergence in training methods has not settled the question of superiority: the higher nervous tension of the overtrained athlete seems to wipe out the margin of physical advantage. At all events, neither university can ever look forward with confidence to a certain victory, but each prepares soberly for a friendly bout. Harvard is glad that Oxford is sending her track team to the Stadium, and looks forward to next July. When the sister universities will pit their sons against each other in brotherly contest...
...University squash racquets team gained a prohibitive lead in the state league Saturday by defeating B. A. A., its closest rival, 4 to 1. The margin of superiority was so great that Captain Dixon and his teammates have virtually clinched the championship...
Faced with the perpetual problem of employing him time to best advantage, many a man feels that it is not worth the extra margin of time necessary to bring a C up to a B, or a B to an A. And the same student feels constant dissatisfaction with himself if he gets a C or a B when he knows he is capable of doing better...
...uniformed in the maddening monotony of platitude and always marking time, one man may now and then be seen to step ahead. David Wark Griffith took his first step forward with The Birth of a Nation when the ranks were straggling and new. Since then he has widened the margin of his advance and stands unchallenged as Commanding Officer. This absolute leader in the film field has made another of his all too rare productions. To Germany he went to make it; took Germany's post-War hunger as his theme; two peasants are his personalities. Dealing...
Another valuable and rare item is the 1816 edition of Christabel and Kubla Khan, Coleridge's own works, which contains notes by him, correcting or improving the original text. The "Christabel" has many lines crossed out and others written in manuscript on the margin...