Word: marginal
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Seniors won the interclass shoot yesterday afternoon, defeating the Juniors in the second preliminary match by the score of 172 to 136, and winning from the Sophomores in the final round by the large margin of 41 birds, the score being 172 to 131. Owing to the fact that several men were unable to shoot on Friday, the two matches were run off in one, the team making the best score of the Senior and Junior match counting that score against the Sophomores' score for the final match...
...operative makes an average of about 20 cents on every dollar's worth of goods sold and that the average expense involved in the sale of a dollar's worth of goods, including allowances for depreciation, etc., is about 15 cents. The business is therefore conducted on a narrow margin of net profit and a dividend of 8 per cent, would not be possible were it not for the large amount of sales to nonmembers who draw no dividends on their purchases, yet whose patronage contributes to the amount of net profit available for distribution to those purchasers...
...stroke for the first time since the start, and the boat drew away rapidly. Harvard had met Yale's last spurt with disastrous results for Yale, and now began to increase the lead at will. Passing the two and one-half mile mark Harvard had a good margin of open water. At 3 miles the lead, was 3 lengths and over a length was added in the next half-mile. During the last half-mile Cutler worked the stroke up gradually, until the crew crossed the finish line rowing 39 strokes to the minute in beautiful form, a winner...
...detracted nothing from the interest in the event. Harvard, Princeton, and Pennsylvania had two men each in the final heat. Foster and Dawbarn ran side by side until fifty yards from the end, when the former drew away and won by several yards. Minds was third by a safe margin, and at the tape Watson beat out Gamble and Newell for fourth...
...dashes the Freshmen sprung a surprise; Cummin won the 100-yard dash by a narrow margin and Billings pulled away from the Yale runners in the 220, winning easily with Ranney second. The hurdles went to Yale; in the 120 Dupont finished second and undoubtedly would have placed in the 220 if he had not tripped...