Word: cannoneer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Navy cannon boomed a 21-gun salute, the Philadelphia slid out of the harbor into the open sea. headed for the Caribbean. Plans called for several days' Gulf-Stream fishing...
...Walter B. Cannon '96, George Higginson Professor of Physiology in the Medical School, will address tonight's meeting on "Chemical Mediation of Nerve Impulses." Illustrative movies will also be shown and refreshments served afterwards...
Into Vienna last week, three days ahead of the Feldmarschall, charged German Reichsbank Governor Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Europe's most unorthodox and potent economic prestidigitator. He has kept on for so many years pulling steel and cannon out of the hat of virtually busted Germany, that what he can do with a Greater Germany, now not quite so busted by reason of the addition of Austria, simply remains to be seen. Dr. Schacht took Austria's gold last week as a matter of course and no Austrian protest was recorded...
Landscape in etching has a fairly definite starting point. That is Durer's plate known as "The Cannon," shown in a fine impression. Remarkable in every way, it stands as the first pure landscape print, as an achievement in panoramic composition, as his last etching. It is all in line, individual strokes that build up the texture of the earth, even the tone...
...strange that such a penetration into a new field inspired other ventures in landscape. There comes Hendrik Goltzins, the engraver, whose two woodcut prints in great boldness of line, alone of all the early examples could be safely hung beside the strength of the "Cannon." There also was Augustin Hirschvogel, the etcher, whose print betrays the limited grasp of landscape forms in his day and there is Lautensack who loses himself in the struggle to record the whole tangle of a forest...