Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...squad was put through the usual calisthenics and drill on fundamentals and then lined up for a "dummy scrimmage at full speed." Coach Casey started the revamped A team against the C's and later made frequent substitutions in both lineups. The emphasis was placed on carrying out of assignments and not on the coordination of a definite team. The backs were given a long passing drill and some improvement was noted...
Schumann in Signal Drill...
...Dental Congress, planned in connection with the Fair, and the annual convention of the American Dental Association. Among the 176 subjects which engrossed them was this problem of "Why do people fear the dentist?" Any layman who had ever had a molar nerve rasped by a dentist's drill could have given them a ready answer...
Once the common grazing ground of the colonial settlement. Drill ground of the Continental Army during the Revolution. On the night of June 16, 1775, twelve hundred armed citizens assembled on the Common, where they were led in prayer by President Langdon, of Harvard College, at the start of their march to participate in the battle of Bunker Hill. The original Common extended a mile northward towards Lexington...
...action of the Board of Education in calling policemen to protect it from its own teachers. The City College is busy meting out discipline because a crowd of pacifist students blocked the path of the president--and of course the inevitable "distinguished visitors"--on the way to review a drill by the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. Certainly some of the City College students were guilty of rowdyism, but the cure for that scarcely lies in chastisement with a presidential umbrella. The Board of Education was equally unhappy in its strategy. Its fairness in dismissing a teacher had been questioned...