Word: australian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With the Australian team upholding the affirmative of the question. "Resolved: That the British Empire must disintegrate," the Harvard debating council will hold its first international debate this year tomorrow...
...Australian Bush Fire Relief Fund the Duke of Windsor sent ?10 and a sympathetic thought: "Life is hard enough in these times without the added tribulation of bush fires...
Salute to Freedom churns thus for 615 pages. A life chronicle, it begins in 1902, ends last year. Between those dates Robin Stewart, son of a rich Australian ranchman, is a schoolboy, a university student, a ranch owner (75,000 acres), polo player, soldier, husband of an older woman who nags him and whom he drives insane, father of one illegitimate and two legitimate children, lover of one woman who loves him for himself, another who loves him for herself, another who loves him in spite of herself. A failure as a rancher, he becomes a Sydney intellectual, a magazine...
Delegates wore linen suits, shorts, sandals and open shirts to a garden party at Parliament House-which reporters called the "most informal" in Australian history-but sweat ran down their faces. When a cooling shower fell on the party, the change was too much for Scientist Ernest Clayton Andrews, past president of the congress. He was found unconscious in a rain puddle, hospitalized...
...more serious Australian disaster...