Word: australia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kwong is a native of China and has been in this country several years. A part of his life has been spent in Australia, so that he has a genuinely international background. He is a graduate of Boston University School of Business Administration and is now a student in the Boston University School of Liberal Arts. He is recognized leader among the Chinese Students of greater Boston and on several occasions he has represented Boston University on the debating team...
...rudimentary (compared to now) system of 'narrow-casting,' using skeleton parabolic mirrors to converge my waves in a beam, thus saving generative power and preventing messages from being diffused 'broadcast' into the enemy camp. My long-wave work also continued and in 1918 I reached Australia from Great Britain...
...come to the U. S. for a lecture tour in behalf of his passion and, of course, his pocketbook. His passion is commercial and civil aviation-flying for everybody-and in its service he has flown the length of Africa, the breadth of the seas between Britain and Australia (TIME, Oct. 11), without any preparation beforehand beyond ascertaining where he could pick up fuel. Interviewed, he spoke with scorn of parachutes: "Great heavens! If flying is so dangerous that you've got to use a parachute, then don't fly. ... Or get a plane with more than...
...have an International debate here with the University of Sydney, Australia, on the question: "Resolved, that the Modern Press exercises a harmful influence on the Community." Iowa State will uphold the negative. Since TIME is a weekly newsmagazine* which attempts to assimilate and re-picture news from a wide variety of sources, your staff must be able to present some very definite conclusion about the effects of news, editorials and advertisements of the Press of the country. Would you mind, therefore, telling me briefly what this re-action is, and how the TIME staff is guided in its own editorial...
...laps. Air Vengeance. At Bombay there was sentenced last week to "five years' rigorous imprisonment" an Arab who would not confess his name but was proved to have shot and killed from the desert A. G. Elliott, air mechanician for famed British flying ace Sir Alan ("England-to-Australia-and-Return") Cobham (TIME...