ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HILLS HOIST
Named after its inventor, Lance Hills (1902-1986).
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HILLS HOIST»
Discover the use of
Hills Hoist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Hills Hoist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Australia's Greatest Inventions: From Boomerangs to the ...
This book is part of Exisle Publishing's Little Red Books series. Every title in the Little Red Books series provides an overview of key events, people or places in Australian history.
2
Excel Preliminary Business Studies
In 1946 Lance Hill and Harold Ling became partners, and later that year the 'Hills
Hoist' was launched. In 1948 the blacksmith's shop was purchased and mass
production began. In 1952 the company started making a range of laundry ...
Hills. Industries. Ltd. http://www.hills.com.au/ The story and history of the
company which invented and developed the Hills Hoist rotary clothesline. The.
History. of. the. Invention. of. the. Transistor. hUp://www.pbs.org/transistor/ The
transistor ...
Deborah Trevallion, Suzanne Strazzari, 2003
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Teaching Viewing and Visual Texts: Secondary
The Hills hoist can be read as Identifying tine film as selfconsciously Australian
and the singlet as reviving an almost extinct version of masculinity. Or does the
Hills hoist simply emphasise the romantic nature of the action by contrasting it
with ...
Rod Quin, Barrie McMahon, Robyn Quin, 1995
Choose a simple invention, such as the esky, the Hills Hoist, the fly swat, etc. and
think of your own unique addition to it. Draw a picture of your updated invention.
In a group, create a poster-sized flow-chart depicting the travels of a $5 note.
Indeed, her Hills hoist may have made her backyard the object of envy for others.
Clotheslines feature prominently in the letters of correspondents to the Museum
of Australia's 'Backyards' project, and not just the Hills hoist but also the earlier ...
Katie Holmes, Susan K. Martin, Kylie Mirmohamadi, 2007
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The Lingo: Listening to Australian English
The Hills Hoist revolving clothes line, invented in an Adelaide shed in 1945, still
dominates the backyards of suburbia and HILLS HOIST may describe a clothes
line of any kind. More than five million hardy HILLS HOISTS have been sold and,
...
When Fran and Scott dance on the rooftop they dance in front of a large,
sparkling, red and white Coca-Cola sign. The image of the sign, coupled with a
Hills hoist clothes line in the centre of the roof, comments on how the most
ordinary of ...
In the foreground of the painting there is an Australian Hills hoist, with washing
hanging from it. The Hills hoist was current in the 1940s but its predecessor, the
Toyne hoist, was first sold in 1925, making it a reasonably common phenomenon
...
Traudi Allen, John Perceval, 1992
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Deadly Disclosures: Whistle Blowing and the Ethical Meltdown ...
It is almost a universal truth of organisational conflict: those who hang out the
organisation's dirty laundry will swing from the same Hills Hoist. Once disclosure
becomes public, the whistleblower is far more dangerous than when he or she is
...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HILLS HOIST»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
Hills Hoist is used in the context of the following news items.
Suburban crowd of cranes smiles down on CSR
... even if they are a far cry from the old suburban dream of a Holden in the driveway, a Victa to mow the lawns and a Hills hoist in the backyard. «Herald Sun, Jul 15»
Watson warns of bush death
... direction towards where I was brought up and find that all the best market garden black soils now are growing nothing more than a Hills hoist. «Perth Now, Jul 15»
A visit with Ohio moonshiners at next Brown Bag Chat
... Street Distillery in Utica, the bright copper coils and huge copper kettle still would make any moonshiner in the hills hoist a jug in celebration! «Mount Vernon News, Jul 15»
A bus to call home
As the Australian dream of a quarter acre block and a Hills Hoist slips further and further away from even to most frugal of savers many home ... «The Australian Women's Weekly, Jul 15»
We can't pass the buck on innovation
Polymer notes. Spray-on-skin. Wi-Fi. Cervical cancer vaccine. The black-box recorder. Zinc sunscreen. The stump jump plough. Hills Hoist. «The Age, Jul 15»
Will the kids ever move out?
I was putting the third load of washing on the line the other day when, surveying the sheets and towels drooping on the Hills hoist and the ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
Ah overwater bungalows. You won't be staying in them if you're …
So how is the great Australian dream of owning your own home complete with Hills hoist and a barbecue fit for shrimp-throwing remotely ... «NEWS.com.au, Jul 15»
Birds of war fly high to celebrate Australia's pigeon corps
... a nurse he met while in hospital with malaria, and they later set up home in Carlton, in Sydney's south, with a pigeon loft by the Hills Hoist. «Sydney Morning Herald, Jun 15»
Minimal sound and almost no fury: life in the shadow of Australia's …
At night, if you are quiet, you can hear them whirring from the Hills Hoist. There is no objective measure for visual awfulness but it's hard to find ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
Enter the Art and About photography competition
Last year, Georgina Pope's A Great Day For Drying, the photograph of a woman caught up in her Hills Hoist, won the top gong. The image was ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jun 15»
