Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Going. After celebrating Independence Day in Battle Harbor with cannon, rifle, shotgun, pistol, flashlight and races in rowboats, Commander Donald B. MacMillan, Arctic explorer...
Last week, the colleges continued to pay compliments (TIME, June 22). For the first time in history, Oxford University singled out a woman. For valuable contributions to Astronomy?notably the completion of The Henry Draper Catalog of Stellar Spectra, covering 225,300 stars?Oxford created Miss Annie Jump Cannon, a Wellesley graduate and worker at the Harvard Observatory, an honorary Doctor of Science. Miss Cannon, aged 61. journeyed to Oxford to receive her kudos in person...
Hobbies. Leisure, fast becoming a surplus commodity, must be consumed. A plan: invite owners of hobbies to demonstrate them to school children.-Mrs. Cornelia James Cannon, Cambridge, Mass...
Salvos of cannon thundered across the Place de la Concorde and through the gardens of the Tuileries while President Doumergue, accompanied by the principal members of his ministry, marched to survey the opening of the International Exposition of Decorative and Applied Arts. All the important nations of the world, with the exception of the U. S. and Germany, were .represented. The affair, though it affected a pompousness amounting almost to dignity, greatly resembled the exposition of Architectural and Allied Arts held, last week, in Manhattan (TIME...
...some rooms on the Tuileries whose grave silence was only faintly rippled by the roar of Doumergue's cannon, the Spring Salon opened its doors. Because the Exposition made space hard to get, the Salon was small, the work of a high quality. Soberness of execution, startling in such a land, roused as much alarmed comment as the single extravagance of the Royal Academy's exhibition (see below). For the first time since 1913, the exhibition escaped from the influence of the military; hard horizons, khaki browns diminished; dead men in rutted lanes gave place to somnolent picnickers...