Word: australian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...again made acutely Isaacs-conscious. In Melbourne, Australia, that vigorous, strong-faced old jurist, Sir Isaac Isaacs, is Chief Justice of the Dominion. He it was to whom Laborite Prime Minister James Henry Scullin turned last week, seeking a new governor general. Never before has Australia had an Australian governor. Her present ruler, Baron Stonehaven, came out from England with viceregal dignity...
Helene Madison swims "free-style." which means she uses that adaptation of the Australian crawl which U. S. coaches have worked out as the fastest way in which a human being can propel itself through water. A swimmer using this stroke must have long, supple legs for much of the power comes from the hips, knees and ankles. The arms are used somewhat as in the trudgeon stroke. Helene Madison's feet are narrower than those of Johnny Weissmuller, famed male freestyler, but long enough to be good paddles. She has big hands and a tall, athletic body...
Having completed a 43,000 mile trip to the Far East and Australia under the combined auspices of the University Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Carnegie Institute of Washington, and the Australian National Research Council. H. L. Clark, associate professor of Zoology, has recently returned to Cambridge with numerous specimens for the Museum...
...surrounded with boxes of rare specimens of marine zoology, which he was busy sorting and labelling for the Museum. One table was heaped with mail that had collected during his year's absence. The others were covered with various kinds of star-fishes, sea-urchins, a stuffed turtle. Australian boomerangs, and a litter of packing boxes...
...this refers, of course, to the existence in Australia of one of the most daringly Socialistic governments possessed by any English-speaking community, a Labor Government supporting the high Australian minimum wage law. With other alarmed British authorities The Commercial asks: "Is Her Standard of Living too High?" but of course the cautious Commercial does not, like some other commentators, accuse Australians of being Socialistic loafers...