Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since the time of William III the Broad Arrow, a triangular mark in the shape of an arrowhead, has been used to brand property theoretically belonging to the King: Army & Navy stores, furniture, rifle barrels, cannon, and the uniforms of British prisoners...
...Taussig '79, Lee Professor of Economics, will talk on "What the Consumer Should Do" as part of a course on "Aspects of the Depression." This will be one of the first of these Saturday evening broadcasts over the National Broadcasting Company network. W. B. Cannon '96, Professor of Physiology will be the next Harvard speaker, lecturing on "The Effects of Strong Emotion." In this talk, scheduled for January 23, he will outline some of the famous experiments performed in his laboratory at the medical school on the reactions of the animal functions of the human body to hunger, fear, rage...
...these and other matters were discussed & debated last week by the National Academy of Sciences, meeting in New Haven, Conn. For the first time in its history the Academy awarded its Henry Draper medal for research in astronomical physics to a woman: Harvard's Dr. Annie Jump Cannon, for her compilation of the Draper Memorial Catalog of 225,000 stars classified according to their spectra. Small Dr. Cannon is still searching them out. The Academy then turned to: Sabre-toothed Tigerst on whom nature played a sorry trick. "With small brain and powerful body and with the ferocity...
...such as Mausers and Springfields sold at Government auctions. Bannerman's is, in fact, the chief customer at U. S. Army auctions, buying saddles, old band uniforms, boots and flags. Its 350-page catalog contains such items as: "U. S. A. 30-ton Hydraulic Jack, used for mounting heavy cannon, $30." Once, at a South American country's urgent request, Bannerman's changed a passenger steamship into a battleship in one week. The store also has large supplies of ammunition for sale. These are kept on Banner-man's Island, in the Hudson near Cornwall, N. Y. The Bannerman family...
...crossing a field, not as in an American picture by a series of shots, but by dogging his footsteps with the camera. The second characteristic is a corollary of the first, the giving of extensive hysterical close-ups of physiognomies none too attractive, registering "emotion," what Dr. Cannon calls "Bodlly Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear, and Rage." The third is a desire to show depth of motif and subtlety of handling by a series of obvious and eternally repeated symbolisms, such as flashes of a moving clock pendulum, burning candles, or lights being turned on or off to show...