Word: australia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sedate British journal Nature a reputable scientist last week made a fantastic proposal-to create artificial auroras or "northern lights" in the thin upper atmosphere by means of radio beams sent up from Earth. The proponent was Physics Professor V.A. Bailey of the University of Sydney, Australia...
Charles B. Marshall, of El Paso, Tex., as Instructor in, Government; Darcy Gilmour, of Sydney, Australia, as Research Fellow in Biology; Frederick T. Wolf, of Durham, N. C., as Research Fellow in Biology; Edwin B. Astwood, of Hamilton, Bermuda, as Research Fellow in Biology; Carlos Munoz, of Santiago, Professor of Agricultural Botany and Silviculture of the School of Agronomy, University of Chile, as Research Fellow in Botany, Arnold Arboretum...
...corporations to solve the problems which they create such as old age pensions, permanent unemployment and opportunity for young people," Lahey continued. He cited Australia as one of the many countries which was far ahead of the United States with an administrative labor board...
...William remembers that he watched his father and maternal grandfather send Australia's first wireless signals. With equal vividness he recalls the awe with which he regarded a piece of radium brought to Australia by Frederick Soddy, famed pioneer in the study of isotopes. When William was 18 his father returned to England to assume a professorship at Leeds. William graduated from Cambridge's Trinity College, started research work at Cavendish under Electron-Discoverer Thomson. About that time the elder Bragg showed his son some reports by Germany's Max von Laue. who was finding curious bright...
Husky Nancye Wynne went to bed for 24 hours, then lumbered out to limber her muscles on Manhattan's River Club court. Her compatriot, 19-year-old John Bromwich, Australia's either-handed, both-handed tennis topnotcher, wandered around Broadway until sheer ennui forced him to do a little volleying on an indoor court. Blond Sidney Wood, Wimbledon winner in 1931 who has been trying for a comeback this summer after two years of minding his nuggets in a California gold mine, visited his relatives in Manhattan. California's Alice Marble, U. S. women's champion...