Word: australian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Moons sank, suns rose. After six days, the winners: Reggie McNamara, Australian "iron man," and Pete Van Kempen, of Holland; 2,368 mi., 5 laps, 1,057 points for sprinting. Second place: Bobby Walthour Jr., of Georgia, and Franco Georgetti, of Italy. Third: Marcel Buysse and Alphonse Goosens, of Belgium...
...nearly at one in law, ancestry, and ambitions. They are cousins closely enough allied to be on a most friendly footing, and yet geographically separate enough to prevent a clash of interests. That there is rather an identity of interests is hinted at by the repeated references to the Australian exclusion of Orientals as a precedent for our recent action. The maintenance by Australia and the United States of tariff bars against England, the common need to limit Japanese power in the southern and eastern Pacific, suggest a basis for understanding and cooperation. An entente between the Dominions...
...South Africa as an army surgeon, gave him a good taste of the unpleasanter forms of conflict, including work in a hospital improvised during an enteric epidemic. The town could be smelt rather than seen. The Great War found him roaming about the front-line trenches-French, Australian, Italian. After the Boer War and during the Great War, Doyle devoted a good deal of time to propagandist writing. He has been at all times greatly interested in war and the waging...
...Australian prison ship which poked its ugly prow from city to city a year ago was decidedly a success as a side show. For a paltry half dollar the most virtuous could experience the fifth and gloom and foul air handed out to eighteenth century culprits. But while there was much exclamation of horror and much averting of noses there was relatively little conception of the ideas upon which such punishment was based...
...TIME'S account of the challenge round of the 1924 Davis Cup tennis play, at Philadelphia, was omitted. For the records, be it here set down: U. S., five matches; Australia, none. U. S. singlists-W. T. Tilden II and Vincent Richards; doublists-Tilden and W. M. Johnston. Australian singlists and doublists; Gerald E. Patterson and Pat O'Hara Wood...