Word: australian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...number of years. And appropriately so, for in no other amateur sport has there been the amount of international competition that has featured tennis in recent seasons. Davis Cup contests, the entry of American players in various European national championships and the reciprocal array of European and Australian stars in the American titular events have been of almost annual occurrence...
...Faunthorpe Indian expedition has sent to the Museum fine specimens of the Indian rhinosceros and bison. A collection of more than 1,100 specimens of Australian mammals, reptiles, birds and amphibians has arrived in charge of Harry Craven, and will be mounted in a special Australian hall. It contains skins and skeletons of climbing kangaroos, flying phalangers, bandicoots, two very rare musk kangaroos, wombats, Tasmanian devils, spotted dasyures and other exotic beasts. The Whitney South Sea Expedition, under Rollo H. Beck, has found specimens of a number of birds either unknown or long thought extinct, including Peale's petrel...
...most important change decided upon provides for holding the election of directors of the Alumni Association, this year and in succeeding years, according to the alternative Australian ballot and postal ballot system which goes into effect this year for the election of Overseers of the University. This will make it possible for graduates in any part of the country to vote for directors, as well as for Overseers, without being present at Cambridge on Commencement...
...AUSTRALIAN OVERSEA FORCES...
...There is no question of White Australia," declared Mark Sheldon, Australian Commissioner to the United States, speaking at the Union last night, "it was settled years...