Word: cannoneer
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...Krim and his little playmates for giving him something to stimulate his imagination almost every day. Such a person must have been highly pleased yesterday morning to read that Abd-el-Krim, feeling a bit pettish, had blown one of his prominent ministers from the mouth of a cannon. Sometimes one regrets that such things do not happen more often in European politics...
...meting of the Bond Astronomical Club this evening at 8 o'clock in Building A of the College Observatory, reports will be read on the recent meeting of the International Astronomical Union in England. Miss A. J. Cannon and Professor Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, will be in charge of the meeting...
...meeting of the Bond Astronomical Club tomorrow reports will be read on the recent meeting in England of the International Astronomical Union. The meeting will be held in Building A of the College Observatory, and Miss A. J. Cannon and Professor Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, will be in charge...
...precise rectangular criss-cross of streets that is Mexico City popped myriads of firecrackers, detonated cannon crackers as bulkily potent as an elephant's wrist. From the oozy slums half sliming into Lake Texcoco rose a clatter of revelry that carried even to aristocratic patios of the Colonia Juarez. Mexico's 115th Independence Day (Sept. 16) had arrived with the dealth-dealing rejoicings that marked an early Rooseveltian U.S. Fourth of July...
Arrived in Vienna one Carl Tucker, Manhattan pianist. He told how one Bill Cannon, Standard Oil Co. driller, had ignited through friction the deepest oil well at Moreni, Rumania. Cannon immediately ordered all the men to leave the danger zone. As he himself fled from the roaring flames, an angry Rumanian crowd attacked him for causing the fire, now rapidly spreading. Cannon's revolver, however, cowed them...