Word: australian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whales are mammals. They do not have gills but lungs, must breathe air in order to maintain life. Therefore a whale out of water is not, like a fish, deprived of a necessary element. When a school of dead whales was recently found on the Australian coast. Dr. William Alexander Osborne, dean of the faculty of medicine at the University of Melbourne, put this question to his learned colleagues: "Why do stranded whales die?" From his learned colleagues, according to his report in Nature last week, he received the following answers...
Though still to be found in its exclusively Australian habitat, the duckbill is nonextant as a foreign captive. In 1922, after spending nine years and $1,400, New York Zoological Park's deliberate William Reid Blair carried to The Bronx the only live platypus ever to leave Australia. It. tried for 49 days to adapt itself to an elaborate man-made labyrinth. Then it died, was stuffed and taken to the Newark. N. J. museum...
Divorced. Constance Worth, Australian cinemactress; from George Brent, Irish cinemactor; in Los Angeles. Charge: he was sullen during the 35 days they lived together, refused to explain overnight absences...
...question "Resolved, That Congress should adopt the Australian system of compulsory arbitration" was debated before a studio audience over station WAAB and a coast-to-coast Mutual Broadcasting hook...
Aided by telegrams denouncing compulsory labor arbitration from John L. Lewis, C. I. O. chief, and William Green. President of the A. F. of L., the Harvard debating team won a 3 to 0 victory over their Australian opponents in a debate yesterday afternoon...