Word: cannonism
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...rushed into the base of the column and up, clearing the air so that you could see countless tons of water rushing skyward-drawn up the column by that tremendous unseen force. The column went up & up and finally mushroomed. About three minutes* later, the report, like a nearby cannon shot, hit us and was followed by several seconds of dull rumbling. Then the mushroom expanded into a free halo, growing with tornado-like speed and reaching nearly over our ship before it appeared to cease growing. Then it appeared to connect itself to the main column...
...loan to the Mutual Security Agency, mounted the corn wagon. "Where's Elmer?" somebody whispered. In a moment Elmer Carlson, 43, a bronzed, strapping Iowa farmer and onetime U.S. national cornhusking champion, was found-on hands & knees inspecting a newfangled carbide scarecrow. Looking like a miniature 75-mm. cannon and operating on the same principle as a flash buoy, it was like nothing Elmer had ever seen in Iowa. He left it reluctantly, to join the professor in the corn wagon...
...week, when Elmer left to go on to Holland, the French farmers insisted he come back once more and teach them to teach still others before he left for good. Elmer promptly accepted the invitation. For one thing, it will give him a chance to buy one of those cannon scarecrows. An uninhibited man who startled the Democratic conventioneers in Chicago last July by leading a live donkey into the lobby of the Palmer House, Elmer badly wants a cannon scarecrow to take home to Iowa; he thinks he might even set it up on the rail of his ship...
Died. Martin Luther Cannon, 67, North Carolina towel and cotton goods manufacturer, onetime (1916-21) president of Cannon Mills, founder-president of the Martin Cannon Family Foundation, which aids religious and educational institutions; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...whose portrait now hangs at the left of the dining hall entrance. With his gift of $150,000 the "experiment in democracy," as he called it, went up in a year. Completed in 1902, the building was garnished with momentous of the recent Spanish war, including a "rapid-firing" cannon from the cruiser Harvard. This now stands in the basement, aimed threateningly at the entrance to the office of Athletic Director Thomas D. Bolles...