Word: australian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Geneva British Delegate Mr. William Shepherd Morrison said of Economic Pacification: "We are likely to prefer-it is our British way-a pragmatic and practical approach, slow but sure." This, however, is not the Australian way, and that Dominion's vigorous representative, Stanley Melbourne Bruce, roundly declared to the Assembly's Economic Committee: "The progress of Science in the last 15 years has made possible efforts of production which would enable a higher standard of living to be reached than anything known in the past. Yet, because of the economic conditions prevailing in the world today...
...cast of the book. One dies, leaving a widow, Carmella, who is beloved by two of the brothers. She bears a son to one of these, Chauncey, who, however, marries the half-witted niece of a political boss to advance his career. (The other, John, marries an Australian girl.) Another grandson fails in his attempt to run a farm; another marries, begins practice as a dentist. The oldest granddaughter, Josie. a trim, efficient business girl, is having a secret love affair with her employer, marries him when his wife and daughter are killed in an automobile wreck. A younger granddaughter...
Professor D.B. Copeland of the University of Melbourne, who played one of the leading parts in the measures taken to alieviate the depression in Australia, writes on "Australian Recovery and Government Policy...
...Your casualty list seems high. But no game in which you couldn't be hurt was ever worth playing. In Australian football you can't substitute, and if a man is hurt badly, you may have to play without...
...Well, I've said enough; but, in pure Australian slang I'll sum up by saying, 'the studies stoushed Amherst, chased the Bruins up a gum tree, and showed that they had the dinkum oil by playing dinki-di football.' Translating this into the King's English (or--in this country of alphabetical politics--into FDR English) this means that the Harvard squad won two victories by playing good football. Now for the Army...