Word: australia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four stations in Australia were contacted by the Radio Club's new transmitter Saturday night with Dana W. Atchley, Jr. '39 at the key. These new reports came from the other side of the world and represent the maximum that can be obtained...
...full-length ballets, eleven solos. Music was played by the London Symphony, conducted by Vladimir Launitz, onetime Russian aviator, who once was Pavlova's musical director. Effects on the screen were sometimes hazy. Many of the pictures had been taken in 1923, some in South America, some in Australia. But it was still possible to marvel at the dancer's incomparable grace, that ethereal quality which made it seem as if she floated through...
...leprosy. Why, some wondered, did Father Damien contract it? Was he unclean? Soon after Father Damien died a Honolulu Presbyterian missionary named C. M. Hyde wrote a colleague that, among other things, the leper priest "was not a pure man in his relations with women." This statement, published in Australia, evoked from Presbyterian Robert Louis Stevenson a bitter rebuttal which may well be a deciding factor in the saintly cause of Father Damien. Stevenson had visited Molokai, had talked with Brother Joseph, had found the colony even with its improvements "a pitiful place to visit and a Hell to dwell...
...attention from the Press because he had once been a housepainter. Chicago's Hoyer was the first able painter that anyone could remember who had been a professional acrobat. No tank-town curtain-raiser, he had played Big Time vaudeville for 24 years, was headlined from Copenhagen to Australia. Elderly booking agents still recall him as the only member of the Yoskary Brothers who was not a Yoskary...
More than 15,000 duplicate specimens were exchanged during the past year by the Gray Herbarium with active herbaris in the United States and Canada and with institutions in Argentina, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Britain, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Esthonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greenland, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Norway, Poland, Roumania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland...