Word: bunyan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whom he referred was presumably the giant, Antaeus, whom Hercules defeated by lifting him off the ground and strangling him. Even more justifiably, he might have compared himself to a mythical hero with whom his listeners in the Northwest would have been more familiar-the lumberjack giant, Paul Bunyan, who spanned the Rocky Mountains in one stride, left lakes in his footprints and lit his pipe with fir trees...
...Clay County, Ill., on a farm for which the county might have been named, 60-year-old Bunyan Travis lived and labored, sweating in the noonday and sometimes cursing the bread he earned, for Bunyan's acres were scrawny with drought and his back was bad with rheumatism. Finally he got him a cane to hobble around on. Chance came to Farmer Travis last spring when a gang of husky young men from the Southwest put up a derrick on his land and began to drill for oil. On May 23 they brought in an oil well which produced...
...fields is the Patoka pool south of Vandalia, where a smart, young Texas company, Adams Oil & Gas, got in first and now has more than half of the 20 producing wells. Richest potential producer is Pure Oil Co., locally known as "The Pure," which brought in the well on Bunyan Travis' farm and now holds oil rights on 282,000 acres...
...live horned toads. West Virginians brought hunks of coal shellacked for paperweights. Californians brought 20-ft. strips of movie film. With these trade goods, the young merchants wandered around, to the wooden fence near the camp of the Bahamians, the barbed wire fence of the Texans, the Paul Bunyan display of the Wisconsin Scouts, the Florida encampment hung with Spanish moss. All day, every day the tent cities echoed with the wrangling of Young America trading what it possessed for something else it wanted...
Honorable Mention in the contest went to Frederick E. Pamp '39 who wrote his essay on John Bunyan's "Grace Abounding," and also to James P. O'Donnell '39, for a paper titled "Dichtung und Waharheit in Shakespere's Sonnets...