Word: recoiling
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...military department received yesterday a British "75." This gun was being manufactured for the British in this country and was adapted to the use of the French. "75" ammunition. It differs from the French "75" mainly in that the recoil chamber is above instead of below the barrel. It also lacks the compensatory mechanism of the French weapon...
This feeling of recoil, even of hatred, is human enough to be easily comprehensible, but does its stimulation into a frenzy hasten or retard our war-making and is it, therefore, to be encouraged or discouraged? We fail to see how an American, by refusing to hear an orchestra play the music of Mozart or Beethoven, either spites or weakens the Kaiser or adds a bit to our fighting strength. Why not keep our energies within effective channels. --Boston Advertiser...
...possible to tell not only the position of the hostile artillery, but also its calibre--the last requiring a practised eye. It is also possible to distinguish in the tremors recorded by the instrument the difference between shocks produced by the fall of projectiles, and those caused by the recoil of the guns. It is through the shock produced by the fall of the projectile that the calibre of the firing battery may be determined...