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...then the sun stopped shining down in Rhode Island when the mightiest of the mighty dropped a set-up breather to Tufts. None of the Crimson strategists have yet been able to decipher the 3 to 1 victory the Jumbos perpetrated; but whatever the explanation, to news set the local Varsity back on its phsychological feet once again. Brown is no longer an unbeatable terror but a squad of ordinary mortals capable of having an off day with the worst of them...
Roads, in turn, melted into the fields beside them. "The picture before the German troops," said a Berlin spokesman, "is that of one great indivisible quagmire." But mud gave the Russians only a breather. Soon the mud would either dry or freeze. German tanks would soon be as deadly as .ever. This week the ground seemed to be firming; the Germans seemed to be preparing a great new offensive...
...that the contest was a breather by any definition, but except for superb physical condition and rugged individual play, the visitors were not up to the polish and finesse demonstrated by Captain Jack Penson...
...factor in the outcome of the opening game on the slate. Formerly at the top of the Crimson schedule there was always a pushover game that proved to be little more than a long drink of water. Last year it was Amherst, in other years Bates and Brown were "breather" material in which it was possible to use the veterans only sparingly and concentrate instead on seasoning the all-important reserves for actual use in the "headline" games later...
...gone along to have a look at the Iraq situation. The British had decided to get the pro-Axis revolt there in hand while the invasion of Crete gave them a breather on Middle Eastern mainlands. A trek of hundreds of British trucks, armored cars and mechanized guns, and thousands of Indian and Arab levies set out from the Mediterranean coast for Middle Iraq, to relieve the besieged airport of Habbania. The last 400 miles was across waterless, roadless wastes...