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...offender, Laborite James Dixon Murray, an ex-miner, hastily crammed orange and peelings into his pocket. But Boothby's motive was not to shame a Laborite. He is allergic to oranges: "I simply can't stand the smell of the things...
Distance again proved the ally of the Crimson in the 440-yard freestyle, as Forbes Norris and Larry Miner shut out Rutgers for the only such performance of the evening. Norris' time...
...Coal miner...
Britain's power had grown out of the coal seams of Wales and Yorkshire and Durham. In the same seams her power was exhausted. A British miner produced less than a third as much as a U.S. miner. The reasons why he would not greatly improve his rate of productivity were partly technical and geological; more importantly, they were social and political. The British miner and his fellow, the factory worker (and their bosses), were not looking ahead with much hope. The Government, on which workers and bosses had leaned more & more heavily in recent decades, was dedicated...
...Nottinghamshire miner named Harold Larwood caused an international incident in 1933 with "body-line bowling": he tried to knock down Australian batsmen with beanballs, and sometimes succeeded. (The Australian Government complained to Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.) There is no foul line, so batsmen can hit in all directions. In placing fielders to take advantage of a batter's weakness, the bowlers can move a man up as close as ten feet from the batsman, in suicidal positions known as "silly leg" and "silly mid on." Cricket moves at less than half the pace of baseball, but-say its partisans...