Word: ekes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swimming before nearly 200 spectators. Coach Ulan's sea dogs placed first in six of the eight events. The alumni managed to eke out victories in the first and last events of the meet, the 150-yard medley relay and the 200-yard freestyle relay...
...What do these miserable pensions mean? They mean that retired priests . . . must be content with a room or two in a stranger's house; they mean living on bread and margarine and vegetables . . . They mean that to eke out their miserable dole of $76 per month, the wife of three-score years and ten must compete with high-school girls for a job as baby-sitter...
...four-man affairs. The half-dozen or so outfits in the field each print anywhere from two to a dozen books a year. Press runs usually hover around 5,000. Yet such midget firms as Prime Press in Philadelphia, Fantasy Press in Reading, Pa. and Shasta Press in Chicago eke out profits from their small printings, for two reasons: 1) they keep advertising and other overhead costs to a minimum, and 2) they can count on regular patronage from their own rabid fans...
...paper the undefeated freshman track team's chances against Dartmouth this Saturday look grim. The Indians recently trounced Exeter by 43 points, while the freshmen had to come from behind in the final event of the afternoon last Saturday to eke out an eight point win over the prepschoolers...
Through the lean '30s, successive managements did their best to nurse Childs back to health. Such appetizers as "Eat all you want for 60?" helped Childs eke out small profits in 1935-36-37, but the next four years found the chain back in the red. During World War II it made money, but not enough to satisfy its stockholders. Last year the company was reorganized. This year sales and profits have dipped below 1947-chiefly because of the flat food...