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Word: australian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What Australian bird resembles in coloring the old-time uniform of the rifle-regiments of the British Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Evening This Week: Substitute Questions | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...successfully flown to South America. Another Important usage of the airplane was expected, i.e., in carrying cardinals to the papal election. Whenever a Pope dies the red-hatted cardinals must meet within a time limit of 10 days, which time in the past has been insufficient for American and Australian electors to reach Rome. No American could get to Rome, for instance, at the election following the death of Pope Benedict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Idea | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

...Australia," he said, "is a large employ continent with a population of under six million. To the immediate North and West there are over eight hundred million Islanders and Asiatics. Australians, rightly or wrongly, have conceived it to be their duty to hold Australia for the white races. They have been led to this not only by knowledge of the former problems of the carly Australian settler, but also by considerations of the present racial problems of South Africa and the United States. This has led to the much discussed "White Australia" policy. This is the one question on which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRITISH COLONIES SEE LIBERTY NEAR | 1/18/1927 | See Source »

...Smooge" is good Australian; and the ladylike affirmative reply to "Do you smooge?" is "Well, I'm not fussy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Smooge | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...last child was Prince John, died 1919. ±The new Australian Federal Capital. **Not to be confused with Miss Betty Baldwin, 18, daughter of the Prime Minister. *The Countess of Cavan, and the Hon. Mrs. John Gilmour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Elizabeths | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

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