Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week a crisp Australian who has done as much as any man living to subdue the influenza virus put the finishing touches on some experiments at the University of Wisconsin, then flew to California to check on virus research at Berkeley. Soon he will go back to his own laboratories in Melbourne. Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet came to the U.S. to receive a Lasker Award and to tell fellow virologists what he has found out Down Under...
While teaching here in 1951, Dutch astrophysicist H. C. van de Hulst gathered some information and equipment from Ewen and transmitted them to Leiden University astronomers. Work done at Kootwijk with slightly different equipment verified Ewen's report, which was further confirmed by the findings of an Australian radio telescope...
...eighteen Hawkins holds every Australian breast stroke record there is. He is the British Empire champion at 200 meters. At our National A.A.U. Championships held in August he took two third places. There is only one faster breast stroker in an American college today, Ohio State's senior Jerry Hollan...
...years later he jumped from third in the state to first in the British Empire with a win in the 200 moter championship race at the Empire Games in New Zealand. The next year, he won two Australian championships and broke every existing Australian breast stroke record...
...their girls, a diver,was particularly nice. She could speak a little English and did a lot of interpreting for the others. This same girl, according to Hawkins broke out of the Russian camp one night and went out with an Australian diver. They went to a club and in a movie in downtown Helsinki, all against Soviet training rules...