Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Uncle Joe Cannon refused to leave his retirement and the delights of rustic pursuits...
...Adopted a resolution proposed by Democratic Floor Leader Finis J. Garrett, congratulating former Republican Speaker Joseph Gurney Cannon on his 88th birthday...
Professor Walter B. Cannon '96, George Higginson Professor of Physiology in the University, closed the symposium with a discussion of heat in its relation to biology. "Animals," he said, "have this advantage over machines: that they can control their body temperatures themselves...
Professor Cannon pointed out that warm-blooded animals, such as birds and mammals, have hair and feathers which help to maintain a fairly fixed bodily heat. Even this changes, however; in the space of twenty-four hours, a man's temperature can rise or fall 20 degrees. "And this fact," said Professor Cannon, is the greatest of all reasons against Professor Davis' new industrial day. If we got up at 3 o'clock in the morning, the day's industry would start off with a very bad four hours...
Professor Walter B. Cannon '96, George Higginson Professor of Physiology in the University, will close the symposium by a discussion of "The Regulation of Body Temperature...