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Word: palama (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gilbert Islands. While Bingham Sr. pushed deep into the tropic wilderness to translate the Bible into heathen dialects, his son remained in Hawaiian schools. He was sent to the U. S. at 18, was graduated from Yale in 1898, returned to Hawaii to serve briefly as superintendent of Palama Chapel Mission, as chemist at Molokai for American Sugar Co. A year later he returned to the U. S., studied at the University of California, at Harvard. Equipped with a Harvard Ph. D. he taught history and politics for a year at Princeton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 17, 1930 | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

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