Word: hand-to-mouth
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...some owners, like Whirlaway's rich Warren Wright, it will mean a considerable loss in racing income (Whirly was favored to win the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap). But for the hundreds of hand-to-mouth horsemen, who can ill afford the $5 a day necessary to support each of their unemployed dependents, Santa Anita's closing was a shattering blow...
...Austria things have, for years, been extraordinarily difficult. Almost everyone is poverty-stricken and living from hand-to-mouth. Although one would sincerely regret Austria being merged in the German Reich, the fact remains that the average Austrian would, for a variety of reasons, probably find life far easier than at present. Unless there were drastic frontier alterations in Europe, which one cannot visualize except as the result of a war, Austria clearly has no future. This certainly cannot be said of Germany, which one must admit is an extraordinarily progressive country, however one may deplore many happenings resulting from...
...defense program still has no central economic authority charged with gearing U.S. production to the armament effort. Hence many a specific question in the agents' minds went unanswered. Already their buying policies have changed from a pre-war hand-to-mouth basis to forward buying for nine months hence or more. Chief danger, in a situation where only a spark might set off an inflationary explosion, was that industry might never be told the answers, would have to buy everything in sight to protect itself...
...problem of housing the freshmen caused great difficulay until the Houses were completed in 1930 and the upper classmen were moved away from the Yard. Previous to this time first year men had existed in a precarious hand-to-mouth fashion in dormitories and local boarding houses with little integration of the class as a whole...
Once upon a time Harvard Freshmen lived a precarious, hand-to-mouth life in dormitories and rooming houses all over Cambridge. Today first-year men dwell in the ancient Yard, deeded to the College in 1936; in the Harvard Union they had together, play pool, dance, and study...