Word: australian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only was the Russian production short but grade was inferior. Russia had contracted to supply many a European market with wheat which did not exist. While Soviet officials scrambled to buy back their contracts, France, Germany, Italy turned to the U. S. and Canada for their supply. The Australian and Argentine crops would not come in until January. Meanwhile Europe was reported to have a scant four weeks supply (65,000,000 bu.) of wheat on hand fit for milling...
...same lessons together under the severe eye of the governess. They go away to school, for the first time the boys & girls separate. But now you begin to recognize them as individuals. Bernard is happy-go-lucky, lovable; Louis is cold, snobbish, ashamed of his Australian accent; Neville is shyly passionate. Jinny is an attractive little animal; Susan fierce, proud; Rhoda is ungainly, helpless, doomed to hopelessness. After school Bernard and Neville go to the University; Louis's fortunes need him in business. Jinny takes to London society like a duck to water; Rhoda hates it; Susan goes home...
...away, came next day upon Fred Blakeley of Sydney who also was "fossicking" in the district. Mr. Blakeley, brother of Arthur Blakeley. Australian Minister of Home Affairs, at once went to the scene of Big Jim's big scare, found the reptile's traces. Evidently it was a monster lizard. From front claw to hind claw it measured 6 ft. 3 in., which indicated a total length of about...
...Australians have heard stories before of huge lizards in their continent's desolate interior. They have given the species, of which no specimen is known to have been killed, the name "prenty." Queensland has ocean-going crocodiles, second cousins of lizards, 33 ft. long, largest on earth. It has huge monitor lizards which can run, swim, climb facilely. The largest monitor lizards known are savage "dragons" on the East Indian islands Komodo, Rintja and Flores. They attain loft. lengths. There is good reason to assume that the scary "prenty" is an Australian monitor...
...these were the deductions which Professor Sir Colin Mackenzie suggested to the Australian Institute of Anatomy at Canberra last week. He is director of the Institute, used to be lecturer and examiner of anatomy at Melbourne University...