Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Annie Jump Cannon, curator of the Harvard College Observatory, was born in Delaware 59 years ago, and educated at Wellesley. She has been at Harvard continuously since 1896 and ranks among the most distinguished American astronomers. Her main subjects of research are photographic spectra of stars and variable stars. She has discovered more one hundred and fifty new and variable stars, compiled a bibliography of 45,000 references, and completed a catalogue of 220,000 stellar spectra which will fill nine volumes of the Harvard Observatory Annals...
...Cannon. "So much for the weak Mr. Bryan. Now for the corrupt Joe Cannon...
Anna Jump Cannon .................................astronomy...
...been reckless. William the Conqueror fell to his death from a horse which had stepped on a hot cinder. King Edward followed the hounds hard, and killed single-handed an Indian tiger which had attacked his elephant. George 11 was small and choleric, but he rode obstinately into the cannon balls at Dettingen. The Prince has precedent, and a family. His three brothers and Princess Mary's Master Lascelles constitute a large royal family; he does not see the necessity of looking out for the whole kingdom through his own monocle. If the burden of the throne appears too formidable...
...Cannon during her astronomical work has completed a bibliography of variable stars comprising 50,000 references, has discovered 200 variable stars, and has completed a catalogue of 220,000 stellar spectra. She is also the author of various College Observatory annals and of short papers and notes on stellar spectra...