Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before met collectively. In the eight times that Princeton's Bonthron, Glenn Cunningham of Kansas and Gene Venzke of Pennsylvania have raced together, Cunningham has come home in front five times, Bonthron thrice. Bon-thron meantime has had a separate series with John Edward Lovelock, the little New Zealand medical student with a collection of blazers from Otago, Oxford and London Universities. With Lovelock, Bonthron has come out on top only once in four races. At Princeton in 1933 Lovelock lowered the world record to 4 min., 7.6 sec. Thereupon Cunningham at Princeton last year dropped...
...Jutland turns a sandy, treacherous, sparse backbone to the North Sea (see map), Danes from the earliest times have concentrated in the Baltic islands. Copenhagen, the capital, and Hamlet's Elsinore (now an important rail and ferry junction for Sweden and Norway) are on the largest island, Zealand. A large proportion of the fish, butter, eggs and bacon that are Denmark's chief products come from the island of Fünen. Danish motor roads are excellent, railroads (50% government-owned, the rest with the State as majority stockholder) are highly efficient, but to get from almost anywhere...
Also at the meeting the possibility was mentioned that the famous New Zealand "All Blacks" team might come here next season after their tour of the British Isles. An American Union was discussed, but the plan was discarded as the sport is at present concentrated on the Eastern seaboard...
...painstaking investigation of Pacific nooks and crannies, cinema producers have at last discovered one island where the aborigines' routine is distinct from that pursued in all the other ocean fly specks. In the case of Hei Tiki, a widely exploited picture made on The Isle of Ghosts, New Zealand, by the one-time editor of Pearson's Magazine, these hopes seemed reasonable and it is therefore the more painful that they are not realized. In Hei Tiki, as usual, the chieftain's daughter takes up with a rival tribal chief's son. Her camera-conscious father...
...Surfriding off New Zealand last week, the goodwill touring Duke of Gloucester slipped, cut his foot on a sharp stone. "The injury, while giving no cause for alarm," announced Gloucester's equerry, "will force His Royal Highness to somewhat limit his engagements...