Word: australian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Australian Angle. Dispatches from Australia pictured this spunky Dominion as aroused last week lest the United Kingdom have any sneaking thought of slaking Germany's land hunger by giving the Nazis a slice of New Guinea held under mandate by Australia. To block this the Dominion's famed and fiery Wartime Prime Minister William Morris Hughes, who at the Versailles Peace Conference was among those chiefly instrumental in having Imperial Germany despoiled of her colonies, has now at the age of 73 been made Australian Minister for External Affairs. Cocked & primed this week was oldster Hughes, ready...
...dirt, as had been half expected, but further data on a seldom-mentioned side of the little man-his interest in prison reform. Mary Broad, it turns out, was the alias of one Mary Bryant, who was convicted in 1786 of "stealing on the highway" and transported to the Australian prison colony. She escaped from there, was recaptured and finally returned to Newgate Prison in London. There Boswell met her, became interested in her case, finally obtained her release-after which, as so often happens to Good Samaritans, he found himself saddled with her keep for the rest...
...winning the Oaks at Epsom Downs and the One Thousand Guineas at Newmarket with Sir Victor's Exhibitionist, the Irish Derby with Phideas. Jockey Donoghue's new job will not be training Sir Victor's horses, as was expected, but writing racing news for an Australian syndicate...
...Louis' sleeping sickness is one of the two forms of encephalitis for which the causes are known.* The other is a Japanese type. Other, puzzling forms are: epidemic encephalitis, which Dr. Margaret Holden of Columbia University believes is also caused by a virus; Australian X disease; encephalitis following inoculation against diphtheria (rare); encephalitis following an attack of infectious disease, such as chickenpox, measles, whooping cough. Also of undetermined origin is the famed case of Chicago's Patricia Maguire, 31, who, drowsing for five and a half years, last week could not undergo a badly needed excision...
Ugliest animal in The Bronx, according to Messrs. Ditmars & Bridges, is Clarence, the wart hog, whose keeper stoutly defends him as "the nicest animal in the zoo." Rarest animal is the new okapi (TIME, Aug. 10). Now that Dr. Ditmars has it, what he wants most is an Australian earth worm twelve feet long...