Word: marginal
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...mediocre finish in the new boats put the Crimson behind by 17 1/2 points. Undismayed, the five skippers ("We had to keep moving around to keep our feet from freezing") took the final race by 39 1/4 to 15, a large enough margin to carry the meet...
Thruston Morton to the contrary, the election is really over, and Kennedy has won by a comfortable, if not comforting, margin of some 80 electoral votes. Thus any interest in the deliberations of the electoral college (which, by the way, met yesterday) was purely academic. The 14 unpledged Peck's Bad Boys from Alabama and Mississippi misbehaved, and there was a flutter of excitement over Kennedy's 55-vote lead in Hawaii, but the real issues in the campaign were, with one exception, resolved...
...time did we predict that Nixon would "squeeze ahead by two percentage points." Our only prediction was that the race was too volatile and too close to permit a prediction-with 4% of the eligible voters undecided up to the very end. Kennedy's margin of one-tenth of i% of the two-party vote does not seem to us to make that prediction "wrong." We do indeed feel good about the closeness of our measurement-only 1.1% off the mark. In our business, one inch to the right of the bull's eye is as accurate...
...Crimson played 60 minutes of rugged hockey last night and defeated Northeastern, 5 to 3, at Watson Rink. The varsity fell behind, 1 to 0, for less than a minute midway in the first period and then held on to at least a one-goal margin after 7:03 in the second period...
...sabre, Jon Piel took all three of his matches as the Crimson piled up a 6-3 margin, and Bill Bennett and Alan Gardner each won three straight to account for the varsity's 6-3 edge in epee...