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Word: samoan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lack of sufficient white teachers the use of the English language is very limited and is nothing like what it should be after 35 years of American occupation. . . . Money expended per year, per pupil, $9.42. . . . The agricultural school . . . has not proven successful, the Samoan boys disliking hard work of farm life without pay, and remaining but a short time. . . . The experiment, therefore, has been abandoned. . . . Similarly a saw mill provided by the Department of Agriculture has not been a success, not a single board being sawn to order of the natives. . . . As it was rapidly deteriorating and becoming nonusable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Somnolent Samoa | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...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 on the island of Oahu. Stake president: Ralph E. Woolley, Honolulu contractor. President Grant dedicated the site for a $200,000 stake tabernacle, departed in another burst of alohas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Stake No. 114 | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

Telling of her recent trip in the South Sea Islands, she said, "A native woman kissed Mr. Pinchot while saying that he was a replica of a recently deceased Samoan chieftain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MRS. PINCHOT TALKS TO LIBERAL CLUB AT P.B.H. | 4/26/1935 | See Source »

Always fascinated by the sea, he induced the Steel company to build its own fleet. He himself owns & operates the Tusitala (Samoan for Tale Bearer), one of the last clipper ships under the U. S. flag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Management Puzzle | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

...Apia, two stewards from the yacht Alva, on which William Kissam Vanderbilt & friends are touring the South seas, complained to a Samoan court of ill treatment. The court cleared Yachtsman Vanderbilt, found the stewards "prohibited immigrants," fined them £100 each. They could not pay, were jailed for six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 21, 1931 | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

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