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...high-or lowbrowed, the "poems" published in magazines all answer, in general, one description. Magazine-verse, like the magazines it appears in, is thoughtfully written to be lightly read. However well done, it makes no more than temporary sense to its readers-to whom it gives only a momentary breather from the real business of their lives...
...writes her verse-as a considerable public will also read it-as a breather from sitting pretty. No cynic but a broad-minded wincer at spiritual unhappiness, Hay tries to reconcile religious reverence for life's possibilities with lay disappointment in its facts...
Milton will be host to the Yardlings this afternoon on the schoolboy diamond in what promises to be a breather for the 1942 batters. Saturday, the Yale Freshman nine will invade Soldiers Field in the season's finale...
...listlessness and the lack of sustained drives may be explained by the fact that the game was a rather unattractive "breather," but the lapses in aerial work were really discouraging. Yale made 13 first downs on 13 yards gained by rushing, and although we did not see the game, it is a cinch most of those first d's came through the ether...
...study with his beautiful young wife these past two years? They speak the truth, Vag admits. Moreover, these lads can dish it out. They walloped their neighboring rivals, the University of Maryland. They can take it too. Columbia romped over them last week, and this week they're the "breather game" opponents of the Crimson...