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Word: margins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shrewdly bet on pages, not lines of advertising. TIME'S increase in lineage for 1928 was a little better than 20%, in number of pages a larger increase than any other U. S. magazine. In number of lines, Colliers, having a larger page, beat TIME by a small margin. During January and February of 1929, TIME'S lineage increased about 75% over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...what rate will sell an issue), or offering an issue at too low a rate with the result that it would not be subscribed. The non-interest bearing certificates would simply be sold to the highest bidders and the rate of interest automatically fixed at the closest margin possible. The present law which forbids offering Treasury certificates at below par would have to be amended to permit this practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Usury | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...distinction. Recently the Alumni Weekly discovered that the graduates of the New Jersey university have spent more years in the White House than those of any other institution in the country. The race for this honor was close, with the Tiger's victory depending upon a half year's margin over Harvard. But a win obviously is a win, and the prize goes to Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE TIGER SWELLS HIS CHEST | 3/15/1929 | See Source »

...hour in which the instructor may answer questions, it is apparent that with the considerable increase in registration that will accompany the inauguration of the House Plan next year the physical limits of the present buildings will have been reached. While there remains a small margin of expansion in the fact that the rooms are not always used up to their full capacity, to take advantage of this small leeway would prove very difficult and would involve many undesirable features. Otherwise, the only recourse would be to multiply the number of afternoon classes, already unpopular among both professors and students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GROWING PAINS | 3/7/1929 | See Source »

...votes-such was the breathlessly narrow margin by which the French Cabinet avoided defeat in the Chambre des Députés last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Cabinet on Brink | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

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