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Word: ekes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your Feb. 26 issue, in the article about Tom Dewey's tour, it stated that in Helena, Mont., the people "eke out a meagre existence from gold, copper & silver mines, sheep & cattle ranches, the production of wheat, corn, oats, potatoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 25, 1940 | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...people of Helena who "eke out a meagre existence" have a newly completed $1,000,000 high school, a $125,000 civic centre, and a hospital just finished which cost $370,000, besides many other outstanding new buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 25, 1940 | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

Speaking of Helena, what do you mean "where natives eke out a meagre existence"? That's new to us. It is still one of the richest, per capita, cities in these United States. (Time was, when it was rated the richest.) Today, as formerly, it is referred to by our visiting Easterners, of whom we have many, as the "City of beautiful homes and well-dressed inhabitants." If you don't believe it, come out and see us sometime and we shall be glad to show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 25, 1940 | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

...most experts can see, the two squads are virtually equal, with the Crimson just barely favored to eke out a win in the final relay. However, the competitors in at least seven of the nine events are so even in prowess that the score may well be determined by some of the usually unimportant third places...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Mermen Conceded Microscopic Edge Over Princeton; Underdog Puckmen Meet Strong Yale Sextet Tonight | 3/2/1940 | See Source »

...mines, a school for the feeble-minded and one town with 760 souls, one with 250, one with 125, and one with 68. At Helena, where the Parade of the Vigilantes is an annual affair, where Main Street runs along the bottom of Last Chance Gulch, and where natives eke out a meagre existence from gold, copper & silver mines, sheep & cattle ranches, the production of wheat, corn, oats, potatoes, etc., 1,000 of the city's 11,800 turned out to make the biggest political rally in Montana's history. ("That is the greatest financial error in history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGNS: Up the Mountain | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

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