Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Child of Jesus. Also on the march last week, and in drill formation for the first time in their lives, were thousands of Ethiopian troops called up by Emperor Power of Trinity. Short of rifles, famished for cartridges, many drilled with sticks, encouraged by U. S. Negro World War veterans with such martial commands as "Give 'em the works, boys...
Disaster was his from the start. He spent $600,000 drilling wells around Luling, some 60 miles from San Antonio. Not a drop of oil was found. His two geologists, having learnedly proved that the field was dry, packed up and went home. Creditors took his furniture. The banks declined to renew his notes. His neighbors, pointing to a new boundary survey, forced him to move his last drill from a spot he had selected to a spot which, he was afterwards convinced, Divine Providence had picked for him. The day the bank returned his check for $7.40 marked "Insufficient...
...tracks, and five baseball diamonds besides the already mentioned tennis courts. The remaining 20 acres on the property is used partially by the Military Science stables, armories drill grounds, and barracks. Across the street are ten acres more which include two soccer and lacrosse fields...
...Yard were beginning to resemble a dust-stormed Kansas prairie and the imminence of Commencement Day makes a tidy appearance essential, the Maintenance Department has called in outside aid. A team of four men do the work. Two, with the assistance of a five-ton truck and a pneumatic drill, place row after row of three-inch-deep holes, spaced a foot apart in the grass. The other two follow, filling the holes with plant food and replacing the divots...
Other Devices: Alarm clock which squirted water on a sleeper's neck; rat exterminator which snapped a collar with bell attached on the rat; electrocuter of bedbugs; eyeglasses for chickens to keep them from being pecked by other chickens; small round-pointed drill to produce dimples; egg-marker to be attached to the hen; automatic hat-tipper, to work which the user needs only to bow his head; combined rocking-chair and churn...