Word: australians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Tuesday, Mr. Gale, an Australian, discovered a disturbance which be declared to be a comet of the tenth magnitude, in Scorpio, near Mars, and moving coastward, though not fast enough to have gotten out of telescopic range...
...Honolulu, headed for the South Seas with a crew of aviation experts. Months later they were back with reams of preliminary data about weather, harbors, landing bases. Still no mention was made of any airline project, for in New Zealand Pan American's representative, Harold Gatty, the quiet Australian who flew around the world with Wiley Post (TIME, July 6, 1931), was engaged in the ticklish job of persuading that British Dominion to give landing rights to Pan American. New Zealand did not see why the U. S. should not grant her reciprocal rights. These have not been granted...
When news of the rescue of Binstead and Proud appeared last week in Australian newspapers, no one criticized their curiosity as frivolous. Had anyone done so, Travelers Binstead and Proud could have answered with some justice that almost any other loyal British subject would have asked the same questions. To consider cricket the "national game" of a world-wide empire is to do it a grave injustice. Extremely dull either to play or to watch, it thrives because in addition to being a game, it is an art, a religion and a huge tea party. The biennial matches between England...
Other new singers were less impressive. Vina Bovy sang carelessly, seldom felt any obligation to act (TIME, Jan. 18). When Gertrud Ruenger, originally a contralto at the Vienna Staatsoper, took the soprano role of Brünnhilde, she sounded shrill and lifeless. John Brownlee, a young Australian baritone, made an indifferent Rigoletto. But Kerstin Thorborg raised the recruits' average with a splendid Fricka...
Paced by Captain Bill Kendall of the Australian Olympic Team, and Eric Cutler of Noble and Greenough, the Freshman Swimming team slipped down the pool last Saturday evening to take away a 42-33 record-breaking splash-fest at the Indoor Athletic Building...