Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...walls of the buildings, and where a Turkish shell had come down through the three stories of College Hall and burst in the basement among the French provisions. They showed us the Professor' residence, where a number of officers and soldiers had been killed or wounded by Turkish cannon fire from a mountain six miles to the north, and where a few minutes later members of a relieving party had met the same fate. We saw the president's house, where there is not a whole pane of glass left, where the long back veranda has been blown away...
Beginning today, the Field Artillery Unit will fire sub-calibre practice with the three-inch battery. A Springfield 30-calibre bullet is used in tubes, inserted in the bores of the cannon, and miniature targets, giving somewhat the effect of actual service firing, are used...
...take another period of our national life--that which came down to the Civil War. You will find volumes--libraries of dissension touching its causes and development. The cannon shot at Sumter blew away all but the idealism. It was after that high exhibition of idealism in our Civil War that those who saw in it only a war of rebellion saw also an opportunity for the exploitation of the commercial advantages offered by the succeeding conditions. Small wonder that other nations became established in their conviction that we were a commercial and soulless people worshipping the dollar and given...
...Rankin; 35, S. S. Spiro, Norman Smith; 30, C. V. Ryan, Jr.; 38, Nathan Hyman, Joseph Greenberg; 40, E. A. Jencke; 41, W. S. Smith, G. P. Burch; 42, D. C. Swatland, F. A. Little; 44, H. G. Boggs, H. A. Woodbury, Jr.; 46, S. L. Fuss, E. S. Cannon; 47, O. R. Lindsley; 51, H. A. Cross; 53, W. W. Goodman; 55, H. R. Hubner, F. M. Sprague; 58, R. E. Connolley; 60, M. G. Roberts; 61, N. H. Hunter...
...Guillerimo Rivera, Instr., Gablarr Garcia; 9, R. N. Ganz; 11, J. R. Pratt, F. H. Lindley; 14, Arthur Gardiner; 17, W. F. Eaton, J. G. Woodworth; 18, H. C. Jackson, E. W. Lord; 20, Albert Palmer, Wilson Palmer; 21, R. F. Elder; 22, G. W. Hearne, F. S. Cannon; 23, L. N. Williams, R. J. Zutt; 27, A. M. Taylor; 39, R. M. Cross, Harris Barber; 43, A. L. Cohn, Morris Fishel; 45, A. I. Collens, J. L. Shuman; 48, John Bridge; 49, C. C. Sawtell, S. B. Robinson, Jr.; 53, Louis Joffe