Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Promptly the dam broke. Spanish radicals might be in the minority, but they were ready, and they were armed. In every part of Spain, with rifles, revolvers, machine-guns, and occasionally light cannon, the revolutionists fought their way. But, to their unbounded disgust, army, navy and civil guards stayed loyal. At least 400 were killed, 1.500 wounded in the bloodiest week-end the Republic has seen. What caused this revolt to fail, like all the others that have shaken the country since the fall of Alfonso XIII, was a complete lack of organization...
...lovemaking would be a trans-Pacific airline operated jointly by the U. S. and Japan. Less idyllic was Col. Rickenbacker's picture of engines of Death in the Next War: "Airplanes . . . will pick up fast tanks and drop them over enemy lines without landing. Planes will fire small cannon from the air, and whole armies will be moved in huge transports. Giant lenses will be taken to great altitudes and focused on the sun's rays so that cities will be burnt...
...committee consists of Elmer P. Kohler, Abbot and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry; Alfred C. Redfield, Professor of Physiology and Director of the Biological Laboratories; Simeon B. Wolbach, Shattuck Professor of Pathological Anatomy, and Consulting Pathologist to the Cancer Commission of Harvard University; Walter B. Cannon, George Higginson Professor of Physiology; Percy R. Howe, Thomas Alexander Forsyth Professor of Dental Science, and Instructor in Pathology, Harvard Medical School; Lawrence W. Baker, Professor of Orthodontia; and Dr. George P. Matthews, Instructor in Anatomy. Dean Leroy M. S. Miner of the Dental School will serve as a member ex-officie...
...patience with what he considers to be Generalissimo Chiang's policy of "selling out" China to Japan little by little, thus gaining respite in which to organize and unify China's factions in the vast territory which is left. With passionate invective, firing his points explosively in Chinese like cannon balls, Tsai accused Chiang of a series of machinations to destroy the 19th Route Army as the spearhead of Chinese resistance to Japan...
Crack! The spectators twitched. The bullet leaped from a little copper-plated cannon, zipped into a target 50 ft. away. There was a sharp, short glow of pale blue light on the screen, where the watchers glimpsed the silhouette of the bullet, apparently motionless though it was traveling...