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...they have sold away to Galway. The loading is botched and so, in emotional terms, is the boy's farewell; the family is torn by an anguish it can only express in hysteria and anger. The boy himself believes that he is being sent to the priesthood to eke out the family income, and his fate, anticlerical O'Flaherty suggests, is little different from that of the dumb ox. In eleven pages the reader gets a minor masterpiece of human misery...
...Yardling lacrosse squard will attempt to shake a three-game losing streak this afternoon when it plays a strong Tufts freshman team at 3 p.m. on the Business School field. M.I.T. defeated the Jumbos a week ago, 11 to 5, while the Crimson barely managed to eke out a 7-6 win over Tech in its season opener...
HANOVER, N.H., May 9--The lights went out today on the Crimson nine's 1956 hopes for its first EIBL crown in 17 years. In a make-or-break game against Dartmouth, the varsity's pitching staff fell apart and allowed the Green to eke...
...Celtics managed to eke out at 95-92 win over the New York Knicker-bockers, to hold on to third place in the N.B.A...
Syracuse defeated the Crimson 19 to 15 and the Big Rid won by a score of 13 to 9. Syracuse only managed to eke out its triumph by concentrating its first lien men to outscore the Crimson in the game's second half by more than two to one. This was after a startling first half at the end of which the varsity...