Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then came two famed southerners, Principal Robert Russa Moton of Tuskegee Institute (Negroes) and Bishop James Cannon Jr., of the Methodist-Episcopal Church South. Bishop Cannon was asked to stay for a meal, discuss prohibition...
...cloak & box trick to show his people that he was worthy to be their King (TIME, May 27). News from India last week indicated how vain were Amanullah's grunts. Frightened by reports of what Bacha Sakao, the usurping bandit-King, was doing to rebels-firing them from cannon, killing them on the streets- Amanullah's followers continued to desert him in a steady stream. Last week, accompanied by his "beautiful" wife, Queen Thuraya, and his prodigiously fat Brother Inayatullah and his wife, he fled precipitately over the Indian border. At Bombay, two ambulances stood chugging expectantly...
Catapulting, previously experimented with, was tried out for the first time last week as an aid to a duration flight. The catapult roughly resembles a cannon on wheels. It can be trundled over a flying field wherever desired. Within the trough of the barrel a can of gasoline, oil or food is placed. The container rests against a powerful spring and has attached to it a rope. The rope hangs over two vertical, widely spaced arms fixed to the catapult chassis. In the mechanics of catapulting, a plane comes sweeping toward the machine about 20 feet from the ground. From...
Those who knew him well detected in it a hidden sweetness; but against the stranger it burned and glared, and guarded all avenues of approach. Startled it was like the eye of a wild animal, and penetrating. "peering through the portals of the brain like the brass cannon." Over it crouched bushy brows, and all around the great head bristled white hair, on forehead, cheeks, and lips, so that little flesh remained visible, and the life was settled in two fiery spots. This concentration of expression in the few elementary features of shape, hair, and eyes made the head...
Among the distinguished physiologists who will be present at the Congress are, in addition to Krogh, Professor Pavlov of Leningrad and Professor Leon Fredriq. The President of the Congress is Dr. William H. Howell of Johns Hopkins University. The local committee in charge of arrangements consists of Cannon, chairman, and Doctors E. J. Cohn and A. C. Redfield '13 of the Medical School, secretaries...