Word: hilo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small squadron of the attackers, one battleship and a few fast cruisers, which had steamed ahead of the rest of the fleet. They were heading not for strategic Oahu but for the island of Hawaii, largest of the group which lies some 200 miles southeast of Honolulu. Hilo, second largest city of th Islands, situated on Hawaii, received warning an hour in advance. Its airport was evacuated. Within a few minutes bombers from the fleet circled overhead dropping hypothetical explosives. In short time the squadron standing off-shore was firing salvos of blank shells. In half an hour Hilo...
Whether the main attack on Oahu we successful only the umpires knew. The inhabitants of Honolulu were undisturbed save by distant sound of heavy guns, the droning of airplanes, searchlights scanning the skies at night. Nonetheless they thought it pretty grim. After the "destruction" of Hilo they did not find it hard to imagine what was happening to them...
...Hilo, Hawaii, the Matson liner Matsonia left strikers on the beach, sailed with a skeleton crew...
Springfield, three years in Denver, Colo., he went to University of Kansas as athletic director. After going there, he in vented three more games: war-tug, hilo, vreille (popular only among Kansas co eds). In 1907 Dr. Naismith was replaced as Kansas basketball coach. Since then, his principal contact with the game has been sitting in the front row to watch Kan sas teams, which have won four Big Six Conference championships. Last autumn Dr. Forrest C. Allen, University of Kansas' basketball coach, who makes $4,000 to Dr. Naismith's $3,000, promoted the idea of sending...
...native welcome, garlanded with lets (see cut). They toured the islands with a party including President Castle H. Murphy of the Hawaii L. D. S. Mission. At Laie they attended a luan, at which President Grant alone used a fork, the others pitching into the food with fingers. At Hilo President Grant planted a banyan tree on a drive where banyans have been planted by Franklin Roosevelt, Vicki Baum, Cecil B. De Mille, Babe Ruth. Sun Fo. In Honolulu they attended a Samoan feast, a Chinese dinner. Then they set up the stake, which embraces 5,000 Mormons...