Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...situation was alleged to be serious, however. The French losses were estimated at 200 killed, 600 wounded. Many airplanes, tanks, cannon, machine guns and munitions were captured and the rebels were being joined by other tribes whose object was the union of Syria, formerly sponsored (until the French in 1920 kicked him out) by King Feisal of Iraq. On the other hand, the French had been compelled to divert reinforcements destined for Morocco back to Syria to await further developments...
...security which his steep mountains provide him. Troops cannot be moved across them except through winding passes which the Riffian tribesmen dominate. Artillery and bombs are almost useless; for they cannot remove mountains of rock. But against the attackers the tribesmen bring to bear all manner of weapons from cannon to big stones which they dynamite down on to the enemy...
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...