Word: australia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They send their political rivals to jail, to mid-ocean islands or to Australia, whence, if lucky, they escape to New York...
...battle of Einstein is raging on all fronts more fiercely than ever. Scarcely had Dr. William Wallace Campbell, director of the Lick Observatory, announced that photographs taken by the Crocker expedition at Wallal, on the northwest coast of Australia, during the solar eclipse of last September, confirmed the predictions of Einstein's theory of relativity as to the bending of star rays out of their normal paths by the sun's influence, when Captain Thomas Jefferson Jackson See, U. S. N., astronomer at the Mare Island Navy Yard, issued a statement regretting Dr. Campbell's action...
...American musical plays in Australia, Sally and Mary are making the biggest hits. Sally is now in its 14th week in Sydney...
...Ponsford, a Victoria (Australia) cricketer, broke a world's record of 27 years' standing with an individual batsman's score of 429 in a match against the Tasmania eleven. In the same match the Victorian team raised a world's mark which has stood 22 years when they scored a total of 1,059, every man on the team making double figures...
...both British and Americans persistently refuse to know any language but their own, the sensible Continentals have learned to meet them on their own ground. Germany has long taught English in her public schools; the educated foreigner, once devoted to French, has acquired English as well. In North America, Australia, South Africa and the British Isles, except Ireland, of course, English is the ruling tongue. With its increasing use in Europe, Asia and South America, the need for Esparanto that hobby of philologists, is rapidly disappearing...