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Beats and Debevoise will both be unable to play today, so that the outcome is even more uncertain. Stralem and Bondi, however, are an able pair, and if they are defeated eventually, it should be by the narrowest margin...
...Southern trip with two at home make up its five wins. The season started most auspiciously when Washington and Lee tell twice before the Ithacans, 5 to 2 and 11 to 10. In the second game. Cornell showed a powerful attack but escaped defeat only by the narrowest of margins when the Southerners, after having knocked Henderson out of the box in the third, landed on Whitney for four runs in the ninth...
...launched by the Crimson, which bore fruit in a rushed goal from Eldridge's corner kick in the middle of the period. But there the attack was checked. The play was fast and furious in the closing minutes, and Lamont missed several attempts at the goal by the narrowest of margins, but the stellar backfield work of the Spring-field eleven, especially of Captain Adams at left fullback, prevented...
...hyphenated distinction. They therefore: opposed the law passed by a Republican House in 1922 making English compulsory in the schools, and they turned out the Republicans who had passed it. In 1923 with a Democratic House, a Republican Senate and a French-Canadian Lieutenant Governor they failed by the narrowest of margins to secure a repeal. And they have not yet given up their attempt...
...thing it is commonly considered. There seems to be almost innumerable "houses" only too anxious for the addition of a few "bright young college men" to their staff of salesmen; even if those same bright young men have obtained a degree in Physics or English Literature by only the narrowest of margins...