Word: ekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the Crimson ice-forces were able to eke out only a 4-3 win over the Terriers a little over two weeks ago, their rapid improvement in all departments would seem to indicate that they are now better prepared to cope with whatever the B.U. stickmen will have to offer. Coach Joe Stubbs has called for only two practice sessions this week, one yesterday, and the other this afternoon; brief but intensive workouts are the order for both...
...possible they understood. After one or two looks at this amazing vessel . . . they hastily dropped down on their bellies and with their flippers working like connecting rods scuttled away. . . . Their cheerful industry offered this consolation. Where in the whole world is there a creature with a harder job to eke out a living than an adelie penguin...
Johnson & Friends. Only the last part of General Johnson's life has been spent outside the service. They had hardly stopped shooting Indians near Fort Scott, Kans. when he was born there in 1882. He graduated from West Point, promptly married a colonel's daughter. To eke out a cavalry second lieutenant's pay. he wrote a pair of boys' books: Williams of West Point, Williams on Service. A law degree from the University of California made him eligible for the Judge Advocate General's Department in 1916. Odd jobs in the Army: feeding...
Many stolen cars are not resold but stripped of their wheels, lights, batteries, bumpers, etc. The stripped car is then dumped in the street and the parts sold to dealers who specialize in repairing stripped cars. Chicago strongly suspects that some Chrysler dealers eke out their incomes by buying spare parts cheaper than they can be got from the factory, even suspects some dealers of being in direct cahoots with gangs...
...last minute baskets by O'Brien, M. I. T. star forward, enabled the engineer courtmen to eke out a 14 to 12 win over the Crimson quintet Friday night in the Indoor Athletic Building. The score was the lowest ever made in the M. I. T.--Harvard series of 12 games, of which the Crimson has won nine...