Word: australian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...press found vicarious satisfaction in the ways the news was publicized abroad. Said one headline: BIG PLAY IN AUSTRALIAN PRESS...
...Spokes. From the Marianas, well-protected sea lanes would radiate to secondary bases in the Philippines and Okinawa. To the south, Manus in the Admiralty Islands would be (subject to Australian approval) a Guam in reserve, maintained in caretaker status...
...famed Davis Cup, stowed away in an Australian vault for six years, was polished last week for an old ritual. In Melbourne's ancient Town Hall, twenty envelopes, containing challenges from 20 nations, were plucked one by one from the big silver bowl. This ceremony, to determine the 1946 Davis Cup draw, set the wheels of international tennis turning again...
When the Davis Cup finals are decided at Melbourne's Kooyong courts next December, the defending Australian team will be Bromwich and Pails in singles, Bromwich and Quist in the doubles. Said Australia's tennis boss Sir Norman Brookes, one of the wiliest players who ever trod a court: "We hope to retain the Davis Cup for a couple of years, at least . . . that is, if you'll allow me to pick the [U.S.] team...
...polar icecaps. Hiroshima's dust had hardly settled when English geophysicists suggested that polar icecaps might be blasted away entirely and, since the glaciers are tag-end relics of an all-but-ended ice age, the icecap would in all probability never reform. Some years ago an Australian geophysicist, Sir Edgeworth David, speculated on what would happen if the Antarctic icecap were dissolved. Sir Edgeworth concluded that the world's sea level would rise about 50 feet (others calculated as much as 100), inundating every seaport; climatic zones would be shifted; violent quakes would rack the earth...