Word: founded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...system and ask to speak to the old man. It worked. Lobster-red after his long soaking in the hot water, the old man got out. His son convinced him over the phone that he was interfering with an honorable village project, and he relented and disappeared. The villagers found another family, and Launois got his pictures...
Meanwhile, 5,000 miles away, another young Hawaiian was the accidental agent who evoked new tradition and new standards. He was Opukahaia, taken to New Haven, Conn, by a sea captain in 1809. One day Opukahaia was found weeping on the steps of Yale College, lamenting his ignorance. Sympathetic college students tutored him, and soon he became an ardent Christian; he died of typhus before he could return to the islands. The story of Opukahaia inspired the organization of the Sandwich Islands Mission, and in October 1819 seven New England families, singing When Shall We All Meet Again, set sail...
...news, Alaska's overwhelmingly Democratic legislature was finding out that it takes a heap of lawmaking to make a territory a state. Along with weighing a balanced $26.6 million budget and passing a reorganization bill setting up a dozen executive departments to replace 100 assorted agencies, the lawmakers found themselves blizzarded by so many minor bills, chores and diversions that the Fairbanks News-Miner accused the new legislature of "doodling, dawdling and dillydallying." Full of eager novices (only eleven members out of 40 ever served in the old territorial legislature), the house in the past fortnight...
With all this, the legislators found themselves working long, if not exactly hard, days. Wrote Representative Jay Hammond, 37, professional bear-hunt guide and the house's unofficial poet laureate...
Next morning the other airmen of his crew, coming on duty for a routine day's work, found the body on the chamber floor. His suicide note asked them not to condemn him for using the chamber to kill himself; if he told his motive, the Air Force wasn't telling. Moore became the fourth airman in 17 years, recall air medical officers at other bases, to seek death deliberately at a simulated height, perhaps the first man in history killed above 63,000 ft. by boiling blood...