Word: queensland
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...animals of Australia, the duck-billed platypus, spiny Australian anteater, the kangaroo, wombat, emu, casowary. Last week, Albert Sherbourne Le Souëf, zoölogist of Taronga Zoölogical Park, Sydney, told Australian naturalists of a huge newly discovered catlike marsupial with striped stomach seeen in mountainous Queensland districts. Said he: "I am positive Australia will present another zoölogical curiosity to the world...
...tennis," twinkled the Commissioner-General. "But he has been responsible for himself for some time. I am really a businessman, you know." Thus modestly Big Brother Brookes alluded to the fact that he is profitably interested in Australian pulp and paper milling, makes a business of sheep raising in Queensland...
...Melbourne Alsatian Club and the Queensland Shepherd Dog Association fought a hard fight for their favorite animal.* The office of the Minister for Agriculture and Stock in Queensland, has been snowed under with petitions, photographs and affidavits in defense of the amiability of Alsatians. Most of all Mr. Smith's office was inundated with pictures of famed Cinema Dog Rin-Tin-Tin. But, famed though he is for docility and discretion, not even Rin-Tin-Tin could save his brothers and sisters in Dingoland...
...Mayo came to Harvard in 1926. He was formerly professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland, Australia...
...Capital of Queensland, founded in 1825 as a penal colony by Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, Scottish soldier and astronomer who was then Governor of Australia...