Word: eigth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britons are still apt to regard both Americans and Australians as colonials without much culture. In his eigth novel, British Author Nevil Shute has set up a kind of midget contest between these two "uncultivated" cultures. The contest arises when a bunch of American oilmen arrive in Australia's spinifex country (so named for its tough desert grass). The Australians are astounded by the Americans' ability to set up ice-cream plants in the desert, to work like madmen for oil in a country that probably lacks it and, anyway, needs water more. The Americans, in turn...
...Gale led the midfield with three goals, and Pete Palches and Fuzz Steuart each scored one. On the attack Captain Dexter Lewis scored eigth goals, while Larry Coburn and Don Davidoff tallied one apiece...