CROSSWORD PUZZLES
PROFESSOR'S COMMENTS Professor Waiter Murdoch, of the University of Western Australia, asked to pronoiyice on the value of crossword puzzles, put in 20 minutes' hard labour on a crossword and found his vocabulary the richer by half-a-dozen words. He now knows that there is a South American monkey called a titi, and a brilliantly coloured tropical fish called an opah; that a neve is an expanse of granular snow; that there is an Indian shrub called a lequirity, the seeds of which are used for decoration; that a glutton is afflicted with gulosity; that a person given to writing is scribacious. He has also acquired the word capacitation and wonders how he has done without it all these years.
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Taupo Times, Volume I, Issue 22, 11 June 1952, Page 3
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121CROSSWORD PUZZLES Taupo Times, Volume I, Issue 22, 11 June 1952, Page 3
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