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...Chiang had won anything at Suchow, it was only a breather. The plight of the Nationalists was still desperate, both on the Suchow front and in the north. Chiang had, however, proved against expectations that there was still plenty of fight left in his army. Whether that spirit would be enough to save China from going Communist depended on how much help it got from...
...most people in Cambridge today, a football game at Soldiers Field will be the climax of the weekend. But for the Crimson Key Society, the Harvard-Yale contest will only be a breather in a weekend of strenuous activity that will not and until the last Yalies have embarked for their New Haven homes...
This year the skaters face an even tougher schedule. An unusually high total of eight games is listed before the Christmas vacation, starting with BU Wednesday, December 1, and running through engagements with MIT, Brown, BU, and McGill. More than one of the traditional "breather" games has been erased from the card...
There was a breather against Dunster, and then the Mastodens ran up against Adams House, the Holy Cross of the league, boasting a line averaging well over 200 pounds. Dave Wheeler emerged from the fray badly battered and indefinitely sidelined, and All-House quarterback Dave McGiffert was helped off the field with a sprained knee...
...last year's football records mean anything, the Columbia-Harvard football game should be the only soft spot on the Columbia schedule, a breather between Saturday's contest with Rutgers, which was a lot tougher for the Lions than the score of their 27 to 6 victory would suggest, and Yale, which whipped Columbia last fall...