Word: zealanders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scientists call the shark Isuris, most laymen call it "mackerel shark" (because it eats mackerel and looks a little like one) and New Zealand fishermen, who hate & fear it, call it "the great mako." It lives mostly in the South Seas and off New Zealand but, straying over the world, it has been seen as far north as Cape Cod. Largest ever caught was hooked off New Zealand in 1931 by one H. Wickham-White. It was 11 ft. 6 in. long, 6 ft. 2 in. in girth and weighed 798 Ib. No man-eating has been proved against...
...tool bags slung over their shoulders, tramped behind the pipers and gaily sang "The Cunarder's restarting!" to the tune of "The Campbells are Coming." Through the gates of the John Brown Shipyard they went, and other workmen, busy on the 8,000-ton motorship for the New Zealand trade and several other ships, cheered them as they passed to a great hull which for two years has been all there was to show of the world's largest liner, No. 534, the 73,000-ton monster of the Cunard Line (TIME, Feb. 19, et ante...
Paul deQ. Cabot 1GB, famous All-New Zealand Blacks player has been selected as coach of the team this year. Cabot was coach of the team two years ago with exceptional success, and will have several football men about whom he can build his team. The football men who have signed up for the team are David E. Kopans '34, Allan W. Sherman '34, Shaun Kelly '36, and Thomas W. Nazro '34. Victor M. Harding 2L, who has had experience on the Cambridge Rugby team, and Allan J. Donald 1GB, captain of the 1933 Yale Rugby Club will also...
...mate with a sterile buck. After removal the ova, examined to make sure they were not fertilized, were placed in a culture flask for 20 min. with the healthy sperm of a non-agouti black buck. Finally they were implanted in the right Fallopian tube of a New Zealand Red doe which had been rendered pseudopregnant by a sterile mating. The dark grey color of the bunnies, born 33 days later, was proof they did not owe their existence to an accidental fertilization of their red foster-mother...
...Zealand, whose Navy consists principally of the cruisers Dunedin and Diomede "loaned free of charge by the Imperial Government," sent to the Conference her modest Rear-Admiral Watson...