Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yellow Springs, to pull the trigger of the opening gun of the Mann Centenary, went Columbia's old Philosopher John Dewey, President Karl Taylor Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, onetime U. S. Commissioner of Education George Frederick Zook, 370 other schoolmen. The Centenary will spread to the U. S. public schools to which Horace Mann contributed more than any other individual and on which his fame securely rests...
...field entirely to itself in the U. S., and its equipment is standard in the civil and military services of no less than 21 for eign lands. Eastman Kodak is quite content to supply film. One growing use for film is in Fairchild's machine-gun camera, an instrument for training combat pilots...
...built, mounted and operated like a machine gun except that a trigger squeeze shoots a number of frames on a 16 mm. cinema film instead of a burst of bullets. After a sham battle, the pilots can see, precisely, where shots would have gone had they been firing a real gun. If there is any argument as to who "hit" first, the question is instantly settled by the time recorded to a split second on the film. List price of a machine-gun camera...
...Harvard Rifle Club has for many years served as a nucleus about which have gathered most of the interested and interesting "gun-bugs" of the University. But during the last three or four years much has been done toward acquiring facilities and formulating a program which would interest the student who has not had much experience, but nevertheless would like to be able to shoot a rifle, as well as give the "Hawkeyes" a chance to show their skill...
Small chips are loaded in a "gun" 20 in. in diameter, about 7 ft. long. The gun is then sealed and steam introduced until the pressure is 1,200 Ib. per sq. in. Softened, the wood becomes so saturated with steam at that terrific pressure that when the gun is "fired" the wood simply explodes, leaving a mass of brown fibre...