Word: cannoneer
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Pavloff was given the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1904 for the work embodied in his lectures delivered in 1897 on The Work of the Digestive Glands, which has been translated into German, French, English. It has been the inspiration of similar researches by Starling in England and Cannon in the United States. He has received scientific honors and decorations in practically every civilized nation...
Meanwhile the honors fell thick and fast. The appointees included Mrs. H. H. Foster for Arkansas, Mrs. Porter Von Cannon for Idaho, Mrs. Emily F. Genssler for Louisiana, Mrs. Charles Sumner Bird for Massachusetts, Mrs. Manley Fosseen for Minnesota, Miss Belle B. Boyd for Nevada, Mrs. Mina Otera-Warren for New Mexico, Mrs. Charles H. Sabin for New York, Mrs. John Gordon Battelle for Ohio, Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton for Pennsylvania, Mrs. M. M. Caldwell for Virginia...
...addition all the ships are being armed with cannon varying from one-pounders to four-inch guns. Sanction has at last been given to fire directly on the rum runners, with solid shot, and not merely across their bows...
...automatic, rapid-firing cannon, of 1.5 inch caliber, capable of firing...
...pound shells a minute, has been perfected by John M. Browning, inventor of the Browning Machine-gun, and is under test at the Aberdeen proving grounds, Maryland. The cannon is designed for use in airplanes as well as on land or sea, and has a range of seven miles. It weighs 160 pounds mounted on a tripod, and can be aimed accurately from any position...