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Word: ekes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman squash team dropped its first match of the season to a rugged Exeter team 2 to 3 at the Hemenway courts Saturday. In their first meeting this year at Exeter, the freshmen managed to eke out a 4 to 1 win from the Exeter veterans. Captain Ben Heckscher preserved his winning streak, beating Paul Martin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sporting Scene | 2/23/1954 | See Source »

...Army Language School at Monterey, Calif, employs 76. The engineers and doctors usually get jobs, and so do most of the scientists. But the lawyers, diplomats, economists, executives and government officials are in fields that the institute calls "un-eatables." Too old to start all over again, most eke out a living at menial jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Talent & Waste | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...five times in ten minutes, wound up smothering the University of Washington in an intersectional game, 50-0. ¶ Navy, which some experts rank as the top Eastern independent, steamed up & down the field against lightly regarded William & Mary, but never quite zeroed-in its attack, was lucky to eke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lo, the Poor Irishmen | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

Like most poets, Welshman Dylan Thomas can't afford to think of poetry as a living. To eke out his own, he does what he can in other writing fields. And he is certainly among the few living poets, not to mention scenario writers, who could successfully have written The Doctor and the Devils, the screenplay for a new British film.* Published as a book, his script combines some of the best virtues of fiction and drama. What is just as important, Poet Thomas remains a poet while doing a job that most highbrow poets would pooh-pooh, unless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Lesson in Anatomy | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

...Crimson, with its NCAA and Pentagonal League championship hopes all but dashed by Princeton Saturday, can have but one motive left--revenge. Since the Bruins play well on their own ice, but poorly everywhere else, the varsity may be able to eke out a victory...

Author: By David W. Coonea, | Title: Sextet Bows to Nassau, 3-1; Plays Brown Today at Lynn | 2/24/1953 | See Source »

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