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Word: breather (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undefeated, the Harvard soccermen will find the Army match no breather on the read to sweeping the circuit championship with a victory over Yale. The Army boys have rolled up a formidable record by crushing Lehigh, Syracuse, Johns Hopkins, and Colgate, and are set for some determined scoring thrusts against the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCCER TEAM FAVORED IN BATTLE WITH ARMY | 11/12/1938 | See Source »

...Captain Larry Davis, Ringling elephant superintendent, has stated that the 8-year-old Ringling elephant, Fanny, "could demolish Gargantua . . . and it would be no more than a breather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Jungle to Garden | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

Fresh from a victory over Princeton, the Varsity sextet meets Brown in the Providence Arena tonight, in the final game before the mid-year period. The Bruins should furnish a breather after the hard McGill and Tiger games. They have split even in eight games against mediocre competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOCKEYMEN WILL PLAY BROWN THIS EVENING IN PROVIDENCE ARENA | 1/18/1938 | See Source »

Saturday's game was no breather, however, in the way the team was hit although no injuries were reported. The team was unanimous in saying that the Wildcats were as hard-hitting an outfit as they had been up against. Tackling and blocking was all the way tough but clean...

Author: By John J. Reidy jr., | Title: DAVIDSON BEATEN, HARVARD NOW WILL PREPARE FOR YALE | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

Tomorrow afternoon, in a breather game before these two crucial contests, the Varsity five faces a Brown team they shouldn't have too much difficulty taking. The Brains will be bring to Cambridge the type of outfit that throws long wild passes, and if they happen to be connecting in the Indoor Athletic Building tomorrow, the Crimson will be in for a tough afternoon. But in the ordinary course of events Fesler's men will win by a substantial margin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/5/1937 | See Source »

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