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...third and final attempt that the only fatalities of the trip occurred; seven helpers being killed by an avalanche and Mr. Mallory himself escaping death only by the narrowest of margins. "Mt. Everest is asking for trouble", said Mr. Mallory in conclusion, "and some day you will hear a different story than I can tell you tonight...
...margin of a single touchdown, the Elis triumphed over the West Point eleven in a thrilling game the following Saturday. For three periods the Yale team out-played the invading outfit and well deserved the 14-7 win which they carried away, but it was only by the narrowest margin that the Cadets' comeback fell short. In the last few minutes of the final period the Grey and Black team uncovered a dazzling series of forward passes and taking the pigskin in midfield carried it in six plays down the field and over the line. Uncovering a similar attack...
...their defeat yesterday by the Oxford-Cambridge runners the Cornell cross-country team has the satisfaction of knowing that it has been defeated only by the narrowest of margins by its English rivals. The score--26-29--shows how narrow was the victor's margin. The outcome of the race was, indeed, in doubt until the last two or three of the runners breasted the tape. The British runners were favored to win in most of the predictions of experts. There were many reasons for this. In the first place, they were members, of a picked team from Great Britain...
...idealistic conception of God must be classed as "narrow" and "sectarian," and if any religious purpose must be suavely generalized; a priori, as impractical, I beg leave to register a protest. That sort of stuff is as narrow and dogmatic on the liberal side as the narrowest dogmatisms of the seventeenth century--and much shallower; and what is vastly more important, it does not represent the position of hundreds, perhaps of thousands, of men in this University. R. P. CURRIER...
...Colgate is a stronger aggregation than any Harvard has opposed this year. Hers is a team of veterans who are, at the same time, marvelous specimens physically. The Mountaineers scored two touchdowns early in the first period as the result of long forward passes which were successful by the narrowest possible margin. Forward passes, again, netted the other later touchdowns. All of these passes might easily have failed, leaving the score...