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Harvard, it may be recalled, could only produce a 12-inch margin of victory over the Tigers two weeks ago, while Navy previously defeated them with two lengths to spare...
Winthrop nosed out the Dunster eight by about the width of a dirty sweat sock yesterday in the most closely contested intramural crew heat of the day. The margin of victory was so small that even the winning crow, clocked at 4:28, was in some doubt as to which shell had crossed the line first...
...scoop out 100 of them, you'll get approximately 70 white beans and 30 black in your hand and the range of your possible error can be computed mathematically. As long as the barrel contains many more beans than your handful, the proportion will remain within that margin of error 997 times out of 1,000." The reverse, he maintains, is equally true: a proportion of 7 to 3 in the hand means a proportion of 7 to 3 in the barrel...
...election night, 1936, Gallup flipped on the radio and knew he was in. Though he had badly underestimated Roosevelt's winning margin, he had called the Digest's predictions within 1%. After that, it was simply a question of convincing newspaper publishers that there was still news for pollsters to report...
...best stroke to be sport himself on the waters of Lake Cayuga for many a long year. What's more, he's the nephew of the greatest stroke Cornell ever had, whatever that may signify. For a third, this crew has elready defeated Syracuse by a sizeable margin...