Word: australia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plaintive screed by Noel Burnet under Animals in TIME, Nov. 16, relative to the koala "Teddy bears" of Australia is not without its points. But rather than ask for a Santa Claus, why doesn't he offer for sale an enlarged colored picture of the bear & cub, such as you have reproduced, with the proceeds going to the present and future care and protection of the bears? If the picture were well done I would gladly pay a dollar for one to give to my little girl...
...published in Vol. III, No. 1, of Ward's Natural Science Bulletin, dated Jan. 1, 1884. The same issue contained a sketch of a brontosaurus, a facetiously polysyllabic and mildly risque poem about a mermaid and an octopus, articles on the musk ox and the flying fox of Australia; also included was a business-like list of catalogs for the sale of such natural history specimens as human skeletons. North American bird eggs, glass models of invertebrates. This periodical, published by Ward's Natural Science Establishment of Rochester, N. Y. was probably the earliest scientific "house organ...
...knew where Ward's was. Ward officials like to tell the story of an Australian scientist who registered at a Rochester hotel, asked how to proceed to Ward's. The clerk confessed ignorance. "Young man," the visitor bellowed indignantly, "I've come all the way from Australia and there are just two things in America I wanted to see. One was the Grand Canyon, and one was Ward...
Hailing from Sydney, Australia, and like Hutter, in Berlin at the Olympics last summer, is William Kendall '40, whose sensational performances are expected to help turn this year's Freshman team into the best Yardling outfit ever to wear the Crimson. Supporting the Australian ace are several other able swimmers like Henry A. Curwen, Frederick W. Griffen, Enno R. Hobbing, Robert Urquhart and Harry Southwick. These men, under the guidance of Lawrence Peterson, new Freshman coach, face their first meet on December 16, with the Lynn Y. M. C. A. as opposition...
...Oiwin Trowbridge (Frank McHugh), the greeting-card poet, originating obscurely in the brain of John Cecil Holm, sharpened and clarified by Playwright George Abbott, has attained the gigantic stature that comes to a stage character with 96 weeks on Broadway, five road companies in the U. S., one in Australia and successful presentations in London and Paris. Oiwin's prestige made him a serious problem to Hal Walk's, Warners' production boss, and his able aide, Sam Bischoff. They owned the picture rights to the play. Warners had backed the Manhattan production. But what to do with...