Word: bunyans
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...Bunyan's Way. The imperfection of the instrument does not detract from the nobility of the aim provided its imperfection is recognized and admitted. Many who went on the Crusades were actuated by base motives or were led into ignoble behavior, but the Crusades still remained a noble enterprise. It is the same today. Because Chiang was corrupt, it does not necessarily follow that he must not now be supported; because Rhee can behave like a villain, it does not follow that none of us who were associated with the defense of South Korea may hold up our heads...
That was like handing Kit Carson a rifle or Paul Bunyan an ax. Benny mastered the thing-which came down to his knees-and began blowing the stuff of American legend...
...mechanisms by which tubercle bacilli cause damage to the human body. On the other hand, the disease modifies in a peculiar manner the emotional and intellectual climate of the societies that it attacks." Frail & Pale. Tuberculosis was so great a killer in the iyth century, that John Bunyan wrote of Mr. Badman: "The captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away was the Consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave." But the great outburst of the disease after the Industrial Revolution made its earlier ravages seem tame...
...Northwest logging country, in backwoods towns like Ohop, Duckabush and Cle Elum, the jukeboxes were booming last week with a new song that seemed ground out on Paul Bunyan's grindstone-the one that was so big that every time it turned three times it was payday again...
...rage of the Northwest, The Frozen Logger, was written by a onetime mule skinner, hobo poet and bull cook named Jim Stevens, one of the first men to set the tall tales of Paul Bunyan down on paper (1925). He wrote the lyrics in 1928, borrowed the melody of an old ballad to go with them. He finally got it published last year, and the folk-singing Weavers picked it up and boosted it into popularity. So much popularity, says Stevens, 59, that "I hear some of the boys in the woods are beginning to use their thumbs...