Word: australia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...schooner, whose right arm was sheer muscle and whose footwork as she bounded on the deck proclaimed that she could take a fall out of any man not specially trained to withstand her"; Oilskin Jack and Bonita Sam, who finally wearied of sailoring and bought a little farm in Australia with an asthmatic horse, a "tailless rooster and two scolding hens" for equipment; and the sailmaker, who had such an eloquent sniff that he needed no other means of communication...
Hookworm work was carried on during the year in Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Saint Lucia, Trinidad, Porto Rico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Salvador, Colombia, Dutch Guiana, Brazil, Australia, Fiji, Siam, Ceylon, Mainland India, Mauritius...
This entertainment, which combines the motion-picture screen and the speaking-stage, as Mr. Thomas appears personally, has attracted several million people in England, Australia, India, and the few cities in America where it has been given. Lowell Thomas was fortunate in being able to obtain an inside story and take exclusive moving-pictures, colored and otherwise, of this "Last of the Crusades...
...primarily to reproduce the entire resources of the Commonwealth and thereby stimulate trade. The United Kingdom, Ireland, India, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and the Colonies each have special pavilions in which to display their natural, commercial, industrial and artistic resources. One of the features of the Exhibition is the Palace of Engineering, covering an acreage six times the size of Trafalgar Square, in which some 300 engineering firms will have displays, and upon which the entire Exhibition will depend for its power...
Australians are now making a flight of 9,000 miles around their island continent They will record data concerning hot flying and will also determine the practicability of unifying the sparse populations of Australia...