Word: australia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will perpetuates his desire for the peace and union of mankind by founding about 175 annual scholarships from the Dominions of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, several colonies, Germany and the United States. At present there are 32 students selected from the United States, four from each of eight groups of contiguous states...
Your recent news item about itinerant dentists [TIME, Aug. 30] brought to mind a remarkable itinerant dentist whom I ran across a few months ago in Western Australia. John Dunn, now in his late 20s, Harvard Dental School, class of '29, went out to Australia on graduation, had a hard time fighting the Depression in Perth. Then, on pure nerve, he pushed up into the appalling open spaces of Northwestern Australia. Today he is the only dentist in an area stretching 1,000 mi. along the coast of the Indian Ocean and 400 mi. inland-a region the size...
...world's wheat marts, the U. S. will this year have little competition from Canada or the Danubian countries, both having small crops. Argentina and Australia expect fair crops and Russia a huge one. Last week European demand for U. S. wheat manifested itself strongly for the first time this season and on one day nearly 1,000,000 bu. were sold abroad...
...Australia, Bermuda, Canada, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, England, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, and Venezuela...
...deep end with his late eminent countryman, Oswald Spengler, who prophesied an onslaught on Europe by a black horde led by white adventurers. But he does not present savages as the pitiably naive creatures they are in most white imaginations. In fact, Professor Lips points out, North America and Australia have been the only continents actually wrested from savages by the white race, which in South America has been mostly absorbed and in India and China repelled from all but a few footholds. Most of Africa is virtually uninhabitable by whites. "Whilst the white man keeps on thinking that...