Word: cannoneer
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...rookies, one from Philadelphia, the other from Detroit. Neither had ever boxed before, and they hammered each other with haymakers for four rounds to a draw (necessitating a return match this week). But the loudest yells were for a heavyweight, Private Clarence Bressett of the notoriously vociferous cannon company, who, though ten pounds lighter than his opponent, knocked him clear across the ring with a right uppercut that sounded like the explosion of a 60-mm. mortar shell...
When the Army & Navy took the Circus ("Human Projectile") Zacchinis, her uncle and her brother, Victoria Zacchini, 19, stepped into the breech, flew out of the muzzle of the family's man-shooting cannon, equaled the 200-ft. family record...
Included in the reviewing group, besides Colonel Horkan and Colonel McReynolds, were Dean David, Assistant Dean Fraser, Lt. Col. G. F. Connor, Major Hugh Kevin, Captain Nelson Miles, Lieutenant W. R. Guthrie, and Professor Malcolm P. Macnair. Cadet Colonel George N. Cannon 3G.B., Salt Lake City, Utah, Cadet Major Norman Racusin 3G.B., Cambridge, and Cadet Sergeant Major O. C. Honig 3G.B., Boston, led the ROTC, and conducted the reviewers in an inspection tour of the three battalions...
...entire first line of Bill Harrison, Dick Rondeau and Billy Riley, generally regarded as the best in collegiate ranks, was named by the six league coaches, who also selected defenseman Hall Cannon, Indian football and hockey star, and goalie Barrett...
Though the customary honors due to Governor, Saltonstall a cannon salute of 19 shots, had to be foregone because there were no available blank gun shells, the review of the Harvard R.O.T.C. on Wednesday before a board of government inspectors and sundry military and civilian officials in the Stadium was considered a first-rate exhibition, pending, of course, the little, War Department rating which will come back some time soon as "Excellent, satisfactory, or unsatisfactory...