Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what amounted to a fiery campaign speech. Down from Paris to hear him had gone hundreds of Camelots du Roi ("King's Henchmen"), the pick of French aristocracy. No sluggards, they do such chores in Paris as distributing the Royalist news paper, L' Action Française, drill secretly for service under "King Jean...
Coach Adam Walsh, new dictator of the policies of the line, kept the linemen busy in a live blocking drill yesterday afternoon, and the Jayvee ends and tackles, and later the guards were brought in to relieve the monotony. Shaun Kelly and Emile Dubiel were particular bright spots on the Varsity during this drill...
Although the first real test of the year is scheduled for this afternoon when the Jayvees will be brought into the Varsity field for an inter-squad drill, the coaches decided to steal a march on their subjects and ordered a brief scrimmage session. Each of the teams took charge of the ball for six plays but the period of play was so brief that no one had an opportunity to break away for long gains...
Despite the King's allusion to "struggling against mud," Queensway has in fact been cut in sandstone so firm that the "sand hogs" never had to work under air pressure. In 1925 the chipping was started by Princess Mary with a pneumatic drill. Two pilot tunnels, each 12 ft. in diameter, were cut out from Liverpool and Birkenhead until in 1928 only a thin curtain of stone hung between them in mid stream. Out to chip this down and shake hands under the Mersey went the Lord Mayor of Liverpool and the Mayor of Birkenhead. After that the snug...
...Oklahoma which he did not bother to go and look at. In 1912 after Crazy Jack had lived peaceably through the administrations of 18 Presidents, something happened to him. A man came, gave him $800, got him to put his thumb print on a paper granting the right to drill for oil on his farm for which he was to receive a royalty of one-eighth of all oil produced. The great Gushing Oil Pool had been discovered adjoining his land...