Word: drill
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Fort Meade private (Frederick Gaither) came on the air with his partner, a Garand rifle named "Stinky," and discussed its make-up and accomplishments with Sportscaster Bill Stern. This was an easygoing, informative skit, especially for anyone unaware that U.S. soldiers now carry armor-piercing rifle ammunition to drill through the belly of enemy tanks...
...became superintendent of schools five years ago (having been a teacher, principal, State superintendent), he found his school system full of Progressive Educators. He not only encouraged their experiments but thought up a few himself. But since the war Superintendent Kersey has restrained his Progressives, demanded more discipline and drill in the three Rs. Says he: "We're not depriving kids of their freedom when we demand that they know how to find ½ of ⅜. . . . A good part of this war depends on competency in computation...
Very much worthwhile, however, are the views of Leathernecks in training. The Marines have class, and it shows at every click of the camera shutter-in the way they handle their grunting green tanks, the symphonic grace of their close-order drill, the impressive torso power of their mass setting-up exercises. But it shows best in one chance shot of a nameless Marine, at liberty, decked out in blue & scarlet, sauntering along with the easy, uncoiled assurance of a fighting man who knows no one can lick...
Lack of practical experience and drill handicap those planning to treat emergency ailments. Bi-weekly bandaging practice is hardly a substitute for contact with the injuries involved such as might be gained by periodic visits to Boston hospitals. Work in a hospital is an essential part of the training of every nurse or interne, and a first-aid training course which never shows a real wound is not likely to breed men who can recognize the injury with which they have to deal and can attack it with efficient objectivity...
Although the artillery in the Mil Sci regiment is for the most part, truck-drawn, almost 50 men have volunteered for extra training with the horse-drawn battery that was started last year. Drill for the men in the battery will total over three hours every afternoon, four days a week...