Word: oe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hawaii's last monarch was Queen Liliuokalani, the buxom, strong-willed sister of Kalakaua, and, like her brother, a cultivated personage (poet, musician, composer of the famed Aloha Oe). Tough-minded Liliuokalani tried to overthrow the constitution as Hawaii plummeted into the depression that followed President McKinley's punishing tariff law on sugar. Around the rugged Queen grew secret societies such as the Annexation Club, and finally, in 1893, a Committee of Safety took possession of the government office building, formed a republic, applied to the U.S. for annexation. Five years later, to the sound...
...Education, the percentage of high-school students taking science and mathematics rose last fall. Biology (tenth grade) was up from 72.6% in 1954 to 75%, chemistry (eleventh grade) from 31.9% to 34.6%, and physics (twelfth grade) from 23.5% to 24.3%. But just in case anyone felt too encouraged, the OE added another figure: while the percentage of students taking algebra rose from a low of 24.6% in 1952 to 28.7% in 1956, the U.S. high school is still a long way from the 1910 figure...
...into the night the House of Representatives shook with spirited, if unmelodious, yodels of Aloha Oe and the Whiffenpoof Song. From Dwight Eisenhower came a final message conveying "my best wishes to Mr. Sam." Said Speaker Sam Rayburn of the Texas-born President: "I long ago told him that he was my most distinguished constituent." On the Senate side, Ohio Republican George Bender was in mid-sentence when Florida Democrat Spessard Holland reminded the Senate that it was time to adjourn. Responded Vice President Richard Nixon : "The point of order is well taken." He banged down his gavel...
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Korean Marshal Ch'oe Yong Gun, 44, chief of staff of the North Korean army. In 1922, at 16, he was ringleader of a school strike. He went to China in 1925, studied at the Whampoa Military Academy, then went to Russia in 1931. He served in the famed Chinese Communist Eighth Route Army...