Word: margin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep Gene Millikin on. Even if Knous could be sidetracked with a federal judgeship, the Democrats had another odds-on favorite: Denver's Congressman John Albert Carroll, a husky, 48-year-old ex-policeman who walks a straight Fair Deal line. He led Millikin by a decisive margin in an earlier poll...
Amidst charges of undignified conduct and personal effrontery, the Student Council last night ruled by a one vote margin to make illegal the constitution of any undergraduate organization if the the document includes a discriminatory membership clause...
...Yardlings, who also played Williams, were more fortunate in maintaining their undefeated record, managing to sneak through on a one game margin...
...lopsided majority of 53 to 5, with only the Soviet bloc in opposition and Yugoslavia abstaining, the U.N. General Assembly last week approved the U.S.British-sponsored resolution listing twelve "essentials" for peace and international cooperation (TIME, Nov. 21). Then, by a similar margin, the Assembly rejected the rival Russian resolution proposing a phony non-aggression pact among the big powers and smearing the Western nations as warmongers. The vote meant total defeat for the Russians' major effort at the current Assembly session...
...solid majority had voted against shrewd, able Laborite Prime Minister Peter Fraser, who had governed the country with the red-taped rod of compulsory benevolence. Into office, with a parliamentary margin of 46 to 34, would come the free-enterprising National Party, led by kinetic, fast-talking Sydney George Holland...