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After presenting an alert M.I.T. team with the tying goal half way through the third period, the Varsity soccer team rallied to eke out a 2 to 1 win in the cloning minutes of the last yeriod yesterday afternoon on Tech's vest-pocket field. Hans Estin, a new center forward, scored both goals for Harvard...
...Russia, but these were a negligible factor. The services are short of oil chiefly because the oil companies: 1) get a better price from motorists than from bulk sales to the Government, and 2) are in a competitive "brand name" fight for the U.S. market. To eke out its supply, the Navy plans to import an extra 3,400,000 bbl. from the Persian Gulf...
...just can't seem to understand why she should train four long years only to receive $200 per mo. (-;$30) and have to tug & pull to eke out a few "thank yous" & "if you pleases," when she can be a hat-check girl, receive $200 a week clear, and be engulfed in a sea of gratitude...
...carrying soil in baskets. Ballast-300,000 cubic meters of it-was made by men with steel hammers cracking big stones into little ones. As many as 80,000 laborers daily toiled to put the line through. Meanwhile, through UNRRA and CNRRA came desperately needed equipment to eke out the little on hand: almost a quarter-million ties from the U.S. and Canada, a few used locomotives and worn boxcars from Persia and Iraq, old rails of any weight, from any source...
...after generation of Crimson football players must adjust to the outsize importance of the game. The postwar crop of athletes, as it would appear from reports from other parts of the nation, no longer is willing to shed that last drop of blood in the Homecoming Battle, preferring to eke out a successful record for their team week by week. Locker-room strife at Indiana and Ohio State has been laid to just such indifference of the local "Yale" rivalries. The fact that Dick Harlow, working with much the same type of ex-servicemen, could maintain his team's morale...