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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole Northwest claims Brobdingnagian Lumberjack Paul Bunyan, mightiest of loggers, and his blue ox Babe. Together they dug Puget Sound in less than three weeks, using a glacier as a scoop. Paul Bunyan invented the double-bladed ax so that he could fell a tree on every backswing. His grindstone, which he made himself, "was so large that every time it made a single revolution it was pay day." His achievements and appetites were in proportion...
...solved the problem last year by allowing the R. O. T. C. to drill in Memorial Hall. But that place, the scene of former Junior Proms, was deemed too sacred for marching feet. The various armories are not suitable because of their distance from the College, while the Big Tree Swimming Pool and the old cage are neither large enough nor suitable for drilling...
...Naval Science Department has been assured the unhindered use of the baseball cage for drilling in the fall, and a host of other places such as Grand Army Hall, or the various armories would be available for spring marching. The University even prepared the Big Tree swimming pool for this activity, but this the Naval Unit saw fit to refuse...
...Congress: He lives modestly on Woodland Drive, N. W., when in Washington, drives a Ford coupe to the Capitol or to Burning Tree Golf Club (average score: 100). Outside Detroit he lovingly, bitterly maintains a failing farm, which he once offered rent-free to anyone who could make it pay. He likes poker...
...amount of time, skill and money to make, but which are inevitably dull for long stretches. Sequences from Africa Speaks which would qualify for inclusion: a swarm of locusts darkening the skies, covering the ground six inches deep, dispersing a herd of gnu, eating all the foliage off a tree; a lion killing a native boy in a scene which (if not faked) is one of the grimmest ever judged fit for public release; a strange kind of antelope called the illampa jumping 40 ft. through the air in slow motion; flamingoes goose-stepping through a marsh. Most...