Word: margins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scoring soon after the opening whistle. His basket was soon followed by another by Hageman, and Merry converted a foul before M.I.T. was able to score for the first time. The Crimson courtmen retained their lead all through the rest of the contest. They had a three point margin at the half, 15-12. Tech kept within a few points of the Crimson until well along in the final period, when the aggressive play of the Varsity gave them an eight point lead, which they were able to maintain until the end of the game...
Miss O'Brien was charged with withholding $80,000 in securities given her by a client. She explained that all her operations for clients were conducted in her own name, that some of them were on margin. When the market slumped she suddenly found the securities frozen in her brokerage accounts and bank loans. No matter how loudly a client might demand, there was no way to get the securities...
...Harvard's crack relay team met defeat Saturday evening at the 44th annual B.A.A. games in the Garden. He started on his anchor leg eight yards behind Captain Philip Dodge, and won largely through a terrific burst of speed on the back stretch of the second lap, by a margin of two yards. Locke, Calvin, and Morse were the other Crimson runners. The time was 3 minutes, 27 seconds...
Biocracy likens the human body to the economic system of the world, bringing into account the manner in which the body throws away its waste products, and the way in which it is equipped with two kidneys, extra lung space and other excessive organs which leave a great margin of safety. Dr. Cannon offers a model of tested and reliable performance which, he states, the world may well copy in stabilizing its economic and social pattern...
...system comparable to the ordering of the various parts of the human body. It comprises several points, showing how the world might regulate itself in accordance with physiological teaching. For instance, as the body possesses two kidneys where one would do, the new economy should plan for a similar margin of safety. The lesson of science shows, too, that the organs are spendthrifts, throwing away sugar by the gallon when necessary; even so should the social system behave towards its unwieldy surpluses...