Word: ekes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Their grievance was specific, precisely stated. The mill owners had announced a 12½% wage cut. That would pare the average wage of each male Lancashire breadwinner from a pitiful 47 shillings ($11.08) weekly to a scandalous 41 shillings ($9.84). Sisters, wives and mothers, long since driven by necessity to eke out the family income by working in the mills, would get not 30 shillings ($7.20) but 27 shillings ($6.48), for a week's skilled labor with trained and nimble fingers...
Friday found the Harvard team up against Virginia University which furnished the stiffest opposition of the entire stay but Coach Cowle's men managed to eke out a 5 to 4 victory in a series of matches in which much sparkling tennis was displayed. The two teams divided the singles matches and it was Harvard's 2 to 1 edge in the doubles that gave them victory. The feature matches were Whitbeck's defeat by C. Alphonso Smith, national star and Ingraham's three set victory over Taylor...
...Cecilia Black. 35, mother of three, was Chicago's first female captive under the Five & Ten. Deserted by her husband, she was trying to eke out a livelihood transporting five-gallon cans of alcohol in the back...
...Indictment. Every year France sends a dismal shipload of some 700 convicts to her penal colony in French Guiana -north of Brazil, southeast of Venezuela. Here the condemned, one-half of whom die in the first year, eke out a prison sentence with hard labor, followed by continued exile; the avowed purpose being: "expiation of crime, regeneration of the guilty, and the protection of Society." That the purpose has been sadly travestied is common gossip abroad, but Blair Niles went to see for herself...
...voting, there was a fight over only one name, that of Orestes H. Caldwell, the New York commissioner. Mr. Caldwell had been criticized for accepting a compensation fee of $7,000 per annum from his former employers, the McGraw-Hill Publishing Co., for whom he edited Radio Retailing, to eke out his $10,000 salary on the commission. Also, Southerners and Westerners charged that he had discriminated in favor of the Radio Corp. of America, which operates stations flung from Worcester, Mass. to Los Angeles. The fight over Mr. Caldwell's reappointment was sharp but he squeaked through...