Word: australia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last year Chief Ragoso left his island for the first time, went to Australia to lecture, learn more about the white man's language and customs. When he returned his wife gave birth to a daughter whom he named Marina after the Duchess of Kent who, he had noticed, was then much in the news. Last week Kata Ragoso. now 34, was striding the streets of San Francisco, his bushy hair blowing, his small white teeth gleaming, his sturdy black legs and large black feet entirely bare beneath the dark-blue serge skirt, of tivi tivi, which distinguished...
...American zone plays the winner of the European zone. Winner of this round plays the Cup holder-this year England-in the challenge round. Convenient for all concerned, this arrangement is especially handy for the one potent regular entrant which is in neither one zone nor the other, Australia. For the past three years Australia challenged in the European zone. This year well aware that, to win the Cup, their team would have to beat the U. S. in the interzone round anyway, Australia's Davis Cup Committee decided to challenge in the American zone...
Waiting in Philadelphia last week for famed Bronchoscopist Chevalier Jackson to haul a hooked dental bridge out of his gullet was a Detroit medical student. En route from Australia last week was a child from whose lung Dr. Jackson is expected to remove a foreign body. Shipped home fortnight ago from Philadelphia's Temple University Hospital, where Dr. Jackson operates, was the body of a Knoxville, Tenn. girl who had inhaled the brass cap of a lipstick. Knoxville bronchoscopists had failed to remove the obstruction from her left lung. A fatal abscess had developed before Dr. Jackson...
Powelson, who succeeds Rolf Kaltenborn '37, will be in charge of all publicity for the League next year, while Ladd will supervise arrangements for the accommodation of over 300 delegates from various New England colleges. Both appointees were members of the Harvard delegation which represented Australia at Williamstown this year...
...times, but Huxley and the ship's clerk (whom, in good Victorianese, he calls "M.") developed a real feud. The quarrel was finally settled when Huxley insisted on a showdown before the captain, disproved all M.'s chimerical innuendoes, forced him to sign a retraction. In Australia, where the Rattlesnake based for several exploratory cruises, Huxley found pleasanter society, fell in love with a Miss Henrietta Heathorn, and diarized about her at a great rate. They were engaged eight years, finally married in England...