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...them against Yale. To the track team goes the dubious honor of having probably the worst season. Riddled by gradu-games, lost in the I. C. A. A. A. A. gamesation, it was fifth in the Heptagonal at New York, lost the dual meet to Yale by a slight margin, was barely successful in whipping Dartmouth for its only victory. The Freshman on the other hand won all three dual meets, soundly whipped Yale...
...correct answer to this rhetorical question is, of course, No. Had the South voted solidly for Hoover in 1932, for Landon in 1936, Franklin Roosevelt would still have been elected in each year by a big margin...
...record of 47 sec. flat. A Pitt sprinter pulled up lame in the 220-yd. semi-finals but Columbia had missed a third place in the broad jump by ⅜ in. By the end of the afternoon Pitt and Columbia were not two points apart and the ⅜-in. margin proved crucial. In the determining 220-yd. final, last event on the program, Columbia's Ben Johnson zoomed through to his third I. C. 4-A title, but Pitt's Edgar Mason placed second to give Pitt the team title with 30½ points to Columbia...
Harvin, with 106 votes, earned his place by a precarious margin of a single vote over Charles Lee Burwell of Millwood, Virginia, while Richard Peter Hedblom of Cambridge, last year's Freshman president, was fifth with 95 votes, and Cleveland Amory of Milton was sixth with...
...There are no margin rules on the London Stock Exchange, because its members are too intelligent to need protection. Their freedom from restriction (and this applies to Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels) brought them business from residents of the U. S., who lived in a foolish country where it was necessary to put up 55% margin on the purchase of stocks bought on speculative account. London only wanted 20% or 25% and, in many cases, ran contango accounts with no margin at all.* So London took all these commissions from New York and, by a process that is a little obvious...