Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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SERVICE RECORD BY AN ARTILLERYMAN -L. V. Jacks-Scribners ($2). From a position as impersonal as an historian's account of the battle of Crécy, Author Jacks describes his War experiences. "Major Thompson dismounted and walked back and forth among the cannon. ... He replied that the shot was not made that would kill him. ..." Scenes of hideousness are frequent, gallantry omnipresent. A cool sense of the pictorial dominates a style metaphorically fine (if you think airplanes "steam by"). Non-belligerents will enjoy an atmosphere of accuracy (if you think English soldiers wear "mufti"). The suggestion of continual...
...Rust--Cannon...
...stated business of the meeting will be the report of the Secretary and Treasurer, the report of the Auditor, and the election of a Trustee for five years as successor to Professor Walter B Cannon '96, whose term expires at this meeting...
...Gage, Chairman, and Marjorie Teague; G. N. Burns and Marie Cone; Bradford Cannon and Elsbeth Tait; L. E. Johnson, Jr., and Dorothy Ruth Johnson; W. W. McAdams and Marjorie Pitcher; S. P. Park and Suzanne Pollard...
...Salvador. Three cannon blasts bumped the air and the thickening crowd at the air field cheered. Col. Lindbergh was due in one hour. Late comers chugged eagerly up, arguing excitedly at tripled taxi prices; their eyes on the sky. Presently the shattering "Viva Lindbergh." The crowd charged the plane; Col. Lindbergh screamed them back. 'It took 15 minutes for his escort to push him through the crowd to the hangar where waited President Pio Romero Bosque, the Cabinet, the General Staff, diplomats...