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Dunster and Lowell fought the closest match, running into a three-minute overtime. The Pioneers finally slammed in a goal to eke out a 2-1 win. Neither team played exceptional hockey...
...Bein. The mountain folk, frozen out of their hill homes one cold winter, go down to town to work in the cotton mills. There life as "lint heads" is far from the fine things they expected. Tuberculosis gets the men while those women whom pellagra spares are tempted to eke out a living from the wages...
...Defense of Democracy," makes a stirring though somewhat verbose appeal for liberalism against both Fascism and Communism. Mr. De Veaux Smith, with his playlet "Good-Luck," endeavours to meet the challenge of unemployment in a two-room flat on Third Avenue, where Mary Young and her son, Rob, eke out their days, Rob having had no work for thirteen months. To them, bearing a Thanksgiving day basket, comes a woman of wealth who turns out to have been a childhood playmate of Mary Young; Mr. Smith avoids the most obvious inducements to sentimentality in this situation, but he nevertheless asks...
...favored abbeys are set like islands in the war-swept countryside, and corpses hang high on every road. Holy Church has been chastening her heretical children. In the Abbey of La Soleza, whose fanatical head, Fray Sebastian, is a power of the Inquisition, the fat Monk Hilarius manages to eke out the monastic rule with copious drams and frequent visits to his plump doxy, who has borne him four sons. To this paganish priest comes young Soldier Pedro, with his belly full of fighting but sadly in need of food and drink...
After sinking a picked Bermuda fifteen 17-0 in the opening game of their stay in Bermuda, Harvard managed to eke out a tie with the team of the British West Indies Squadron, and in the last game fell victim to the strategy of Yale and were downed 3-0 by the Elis...