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Word: wicker (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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...foreign stock, probably of Malay and Chinese origin. The better part of the collection illustrates the former, the Negrito, Igorot and Bagoboo tribes, each being represented by a few specimens, while from the Moros there is a fairly large collection. The articles are utensils of daily life, such as wicker baskets, spears, agricultural implements, and also several small models of houses. The collection will not be on exhibition until the latter part of the summer, owing to the labor of arranging and cataloguing the specimens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gift to Peabody Museum | 3/27/1906 | See Source »

...University cricket team was badly defeated by Haverford at Haverford on Friday by the score of 306 to 59. The defeat was due to the greatly superior batting and fielding of the Haverford team, and also to Harvard's unfamiliarity with a hard turf wicker, after practice on a softer cocoa-matting wicket. Haverford caught out seven of the University team, and both Bonbright and Hopkins scored centuries, not out. For Harvard, F. C. Taylor did the best bowling, and King scored the most runs. Only two men made double figures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRICKET TEAM LOST TWICE | 5/23/1904 | See Source »

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