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Word: cricketers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite this drubbing, last week's football game was an indication of how U.S. sports have swept Allied troops in the Middle East. A year ago, football seemed an undisciplined roughhouse to rugby-bred Britons. Baseball seemed dull to cricket-loving Allies. Now the Middle East has its own international leagues in both sports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Eastward Ho! | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...Village green containing a cricket pitch with trees for the faithful to doze under during cricket matches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Asleep at the Pitch | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

...American Museum of Natural History's Curator of Entomology; after a brief illness; in Manhattan. Lutz gathered some 2,000,000 specimens of insects for his museum, discovered:1) that insects respond to ultraviolet light beyond human vision, can thus be trapped if harmful; 2) that the male cricket pitches his woo at the third D above high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 6, 1943 | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

...cunning, left-handed chess, cricket and table tennis player, Haley is scheduled to assume his BBC office in a month's time. His power-over the entire spoken output of BBC-is awesome, but many BBC critics think he may be the answer to their longtime plea for a knowing, public-minded editorial director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: BBC & Its Public | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

Leary Constantine went to the United Kingdom several years ago with a West Indian cricket team. He bowled so fast that he became a favorite of British fans. The professional leagues persuaded him to stay and play in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Americans in the Woodpile | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

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