Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zealand Insurance Co., Ltd. Denver, Colo...
...difficult to dissociate as Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, liver & bacon or the Cherry Sisters are Pianists Guy Maier and Lee Pattison. For twelve years Pianists Maier & Pattison have given two-piano recitals the length and breadth of the U. S.. in Europe, Australia, New Zealand. Their success has inspired other two-piano teams. Two-piano literature has increased because of them: Composers Leo Sowerby, John Alden Carpenter, Edward Burlingame Hill and Leopold Godowsky have written music for them. But the two-piano repertory is limited at best and because they feel that they have pretty well exhausted it, because they...
Napier, seaport on the east coast of New Zealand's, North Island, a noon last week was at its usual occupations. Housewives from the hilly suburbs to the North, in town for shopping; children at school; a few people resting in the brick Cathedral of St. John or the well ordered art museum. Freight cars from Wellington, 200 mi. southwest, were on sidings; ships were loading frozen and corned meats for export. It was a normal summer noontime...
...wave tore over the sea wall, sucked the low-lying shore buildings into its wash. Fire broke out, swept over the debris, for scarcely one building remained erect in Napier. News of the disaster spread fast. Wellington rushed doctors, nurses, medical supplies and food by train. By sea New Zealand's two cruisers Dunedin and Diomede sped to help...
This discrepancy in time is explained by the fact that New Zealand is 9,000 miles to the east, of Cambridge. The distance was traversed by tremors passing 1,800 miles beneath the earth's outer crust, in 19 1-4 minutes, which registered a displacement of one thousandth of an inch on the seismograph machine. Dr. Leet regards it as a curious coincidence that on Monday, June 16, 1930, the record of a disturbance coming from the same locality was registered at a time only 69 seconds earlier than the recent earthquake...