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Word: breather (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doesn't rain this afternoon, Harvard will play the Williams baseball team on Soldiers Field at 3:45 p.m. It should be another breather type game for the Crimson...

Author: By Peter B. Taub, | Title: Lacrosse Team Plays MIT Today as Nine Faces Williams | 5/4/1949 | See Source »

...given Toomey time to strengthen his forces, and another vote may be close. Though the "Citizens Committee" has only one known member, Miss Spencer, and is not registered officially as a lobby at the State House, it may be able to change many votes during this well-timed breather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Measure for Measure | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...next day the varsity scoots quickly to Stevens Institute in Hoboken, for what is hoped will be a breather, although no one knows anything about the state of Hoboken lacrosse. After this game on Saturday the team returns home, tired but happy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Southern Trip Opens for 20 Lacrossemen | 4/1/1949 | See Source »

...three and a half years of reporting the news from both sides of the Balkans' gradually lowering Iron Curtain has been an excursion in incongruity. The Curtain is securely fastened now-except for Communist and fellow-traveling foreign journalists and Low has returned to the U.S. for a breather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Mar. 28, 1949 | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Student car-owners have cursed the petty gendarmes who tirelessly tag cars boarded on local streets. But far more swift and dreadful adversaries awaited the unwitting drivers who lit out of Cambridge for an interterm breather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nutmeg Cops Waive Lairs, Nab Speeders by Air Waves | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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