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AS it struck you that "refugee" is a new word? It was not needed before. ... Foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the son of man hath not where to lay his — Prot. Walter} Murdoch. * eo Om ARIS had an automatic noon hour time-signal 200 years ago. A lens was fixed to a sun-dial in such a position that at noon each day the sun’s rays were concentrated upon the touch-hole of a cannon and fired the charge. Australian broadcaster. % * * HE world’s oldest Boy Scout, Colonel Sir Lancelot Rolleston,. who is’ 92, has resigned the Scout» County Commissionership for Nottinghamshire, which he has held for 31 years. -" Daily Mirror," London. * * * ill our own time, Rome was the capital of the European civilisation of the past. To-day, so far as Mussolini has his way, it is a suburb of the European uncivilisation of the present. — Robert Lynd in "The New Statesman," London.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 67, 4 October 1940, Page 6
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157SHORTWAVES New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 67, 4 October 1940, Page 6
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