Word: margins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the fact that they lost by the margin of two points after touchdown, the showing of the underdog team of Neil Stahley against what was termed the best Blue aggregation in ten years was one yielding rosy hopes for the future...
Yale's yearling eleven nosed out the Crimson 21-19 on Saturday, but the margin of victory was not one to cause any alarm for the future of Varsity competition over the next few years...
...Henrietta Malkiel and John Houseman of a play by Richard Duschinsky. Several seasons ago the work was presented by Joseph Schildkraut in Brooklyn and then withdrawn for revision. It tells the story of two young thespians, man and wife, whose failure to secure parts has driven them to the margin of starvation. Seaching for a fresh face, a producer is taken with a photograph of the wife and offers her the lead in his forthcoming production which is to star Friedrich Gurtler, a tremendous matinee idol who is also, as he himself delicately puts it, a swine. This means that...
William Penn, runner-up in the 1930 election and nominee of the Pennsylvania Legislature, finally sailed through with 83 votes. Grover Cleveland got in with 77 votes, a comfortable margin over the necessary three-fifths but not enough to take second place from a dark horse, Simon Newcomb who polled 78. That distinguished U. S. mathematical astronomer was born in Nova Scotia in 1835, ran away to the U. S. when he was 18. A pushing lad, he forced himself on the attention of Harvard scientists, soon overshadowed them. The last 30 years of his life were spent building...
...this race two years ago that Bob Playfair ran Bonthron into the ground in the last hundred yards and won the race by a margin of six seconds over the first Yale man to place. Last year also Playfair won the race, and today he will go out for his third consecutive win, which should make a record of some sort...