Word: australia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Museum has sent expeditions in the past year to Burma and Java, Australia, Solomon Islands, Greece, Peru, Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, and preparations have been completed for an expedition to the Nei East, Mr. Scott reported...
...year seemed small indeed beside the Führer. Undoubted Crook of the Year was the late Frank Donald Coster (né Musica), with Richard Whitney, now in Sing Sing Prison, as runner-up. Sportsman of the Year was Tennist Donald Budge, champion of the U. S., England, France, Australia. Aviator of the Year was 33-year-old Howard Robard Hughes, diffident millionaire, who flew a sober, precise, foolproof course 14,716 miles round the top of the world in three days, 19 hours, eight minutes...
Sailors have long called St. Paul "the cursed island." As a barren rock in the antarctic fringe of the bleak South Indian Ocean, 2,000 miles from Africa, India and Australia, French-owned St. Paul is seldom free from either mist or mystery, and last week both fell thicker than ever...
Albert Nathaniel Chaperau (né Shapiro) was a poor boy, and had to make his own way in the world. His way led him from Poland to Philadelphia, Manhattan, London, Paris, Brussels, Australia, Hollywood. It frequently brought him into contact with police and prison keepers, and last week it led him into U. S. District Judge William Bondy's Manhattan courtroom. There three indictments were read to blond, buttery Albert Chaperau. Having heard himself charged with conspiracy, smuggling, faking a passport and fraudulently claiming U. S. citizenship, imperturbed Mr. Chaperau observed: "My past is not a phonograph record...
...only two fly the U. S. flag. Smaller of the two is the American Whaling Co.'s 6,400-ton Frango, mother ship and rendering plant for a fleet of six whale chasers. Last spring, when the Frango was about to set out for Shark Bay off Western Australia, the U. S. Coast Guard asked for a volunteer to see that no international treaty provision was violated. Lieutenant Thomas Robley Midtlyng, 29, volunteered...