Word: cricketer
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These small, dark brown crickets have, however, a special sort of wing covers or tegmina, useless for flight, but used for producing its song. The under surface of the wing is covered with minute, (148 per millimeter) file-like projections which are scraped by a hardened, raised portion on the inner edge of the tegmina. The cricket draws this scraper edge across the rough under-part of the wing cover at a rate of 16 1-3 times per second, if the complete back and forth wing movement is counted as one, rather than as two, motions...
...rise in the temperature of the room in which he is being tested will cause a corresponding increase in the sound pulsations of his fiddling, putting the tempo up from 16 per second at 70 degrees Fahrenheit, to 20 beats a second at 94 degrees Fareneit. Only a male cricket can make these noises, since the female has no scratcher...
...Harvard approaches its three hundredth anniversary its oldest building, Massachusetts Hall, is passing through its two hundred and fourteenth year. Somewhat abashed by its new efficiency of running water and electric lights, Mass. Hall can still recall the tinkling of glass broken by cricket balls and perhaps by Revolutionary musket balls. Built in 1720 it came into being as a result of a grant by the Province of Massachusetts to the University of 3500 pounds...
...game between Princeton and Harvard took place on the grounds of the St. George Cricket Grounds on Friday, November 3. The weather was all that could be desired; but the turf was somewhat wet and slippery from the rain of the preceding day. About five or six hundred people assembled to witness the game, mostly friends of Princeton, though we were glad to see among the crowd several fair wearers of the crimson...
...Cricket tests between England and Australia are played for a non-existent prize, the "Ashes." When Australia won the first test ever played, a wag in Punch said: ''The body of cricket lies in England but the ashes are in Australia." That was in 1876; a cricket joke lasts even longer than a test match. The fact that Englishmen make occasional quips about cricket, the leisurely routine in which the tests proceed, lead only stupid aliens to believe that the game is not serious. On the special car in which the Australian side traveled in England, a sign...