Word: zealander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel Gordon, who thinks cancellous bone may eventually outmode metal plates, says he did not originate the idea. It was suggested last year by Dr. Rainsford Mowlem of New Zealand, who uses it to repair noses...
This week I have good news for Subscriber Brown and his friends on Raiatea-and for nearly 3,800 other TIME readers on the other side of the world. For this week subscribers all over the South Pacific-in Australia, New Zealand and Samoa, the Tonga and the Society and the Friendly Islands, New Guinea, New Hebrides and New Caledonia-will start getting our Pacific Edition by air from Honolulu, instead of our Overseas Edition by ship all the way from San Francisco...
Around the world last week thousands of overseas brides of American soldiers waited for the day when they would sail for the U.S. In Australia were some 3,000 (and hundreds of babies); in New Zealand, 350. In Great Britain 2,000 have applied for entry to the U.S., and some 20,000 will apply as soon as their husbands, now fighting in the European Theater of Operations, head for home...
...Canada will have to supply Australia's, as well as Argentina's, wheat customers, including Britain and the Middle East. At present the U.S. and Canada have the wheat but not the shipping. New Zealand. While the gods laughed, New Zealand got too much of what Australia lacked. Hopes for a bumper wheat crop this season were dashed by floods which washed out fields...
...Observatory in this capacity of announcement agency for observatories in the Western Hemisphere, were Van Biesbroeck's finding of a star with the lowest known candle power; Luyten's finding of a pair of white super-dense dwarf stars; the discovery of comets by observers in Finland and New Zealand; and the discovery by Kuiper o fan atmosphere of methane and ammonia on Titan, the largest satellite of Saturn...