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Word: ekes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...score. With Harvard's mental attitude at the right level and provided Captain Pratt's lineman play hard, charging, determined football, I look for a closely contested battle, with Yale on the winning side, but as I have indicated before, with the Crimson given a slim fighting chance to eke out a narrow victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIGHTING HARVARD LINE CAN STOP ELIS | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

...Freshman tennis team beat Milton yesterday 6-1, playing its second match this season. M. I. Hill '30 playing number one beat Green 6-1, 6-2 in a onesided match. H. S. Ingraham '30 in the closest contest of the afternoon just managed to eke out a victory over Upton 7-5, 5-7, 10-8. F. B. Ward '30 easily overcame Wolcott 6-3, 6-1, while S. W. Winslow 3rd 30 beat Beyer 6-2, 6-3, and F. K. Trask Jr., '30 beat Nichols...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN NET SQUAD SCORES DECISIVE WIN OVER MILTON | 5/4/1927 | See Source »

...defeats, those by Exeter and Andover. Puffer has been by far the most successful of the second-string pitchers, and is expected to do well against the Blue substitutes. Last year he let the Elis down with four hits, but poor support enabled the New Haven outfit to eke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO YALE NINES INVADE CAMBRIDGE TOMORROW | 5/29/1925 | See Source »

...Arena from 6 until 7 o' clock. Although defeated decisively by the Eli sextet two weeks ago, and on the short end of a 3 to 1 game with the Dartmouth team. Princeton has come along fast lately, and it will take the Crimson's best to eke out a win tonight. Harvard rules a favorite by virtue of as Yale win, but the football game last fall was a fitting example of the value of comparative scores when Harvard and Princeton meet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD SIX IS FAVORITE OVER PRINCETON TONIGHT | 1/24/1925 | See Source »

...last week a blind violinist played in the street in front of the Fort Pitt Hotel, Pittsburgh. Blind musicians have doubtless played there before-they are not infrequent. A music lover, goaded to desperation, will from time to time resort to bribery to make them stop. Thus they eke out their precarious livelihood. In this case, strange things happened. Men, hurrying past, paused, listened, stayed. A crowd gathered. An occasional ear was strained to catch the excellences of an unexpected technique. For two hours the crowd stood, respectfully attentive to the program of classical favorites-Schumann's Traumerei...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Blind | 10/20/1924 | See Source »

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