Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clark, son of Freda Kirchwey, the editor of Nation, will learn first aid, radio work, mechanics, and military drill and then leave about the first of March on an Egyptian boat for Mombasa, Kenya, on the east coast of Africa. During the 45 day voyage, he will receive further instruction in desert warfare...
...Hell, that's good enough for me. All the money I ever made, I made gambling. In the oil business, nobody ever saw his profit in the bank when he started to drill. I'll take a chance on this one and see if I can get the Army to put my Diesel into ipo or so tanks. I don't care' how the tax bill ends up because it's a cinch that in six months the Army will want more than 100 tank engines, and I will be in production, with a head...
...busy with superb modern port construction; but workers and engineers engaged on it prostrate themselves before Buddha. Conductors of streetcars are likely suddenly to stop their cars and relieve themselves behind the nearest hedge. Little boys of the ultramodern, totalitarian youth movement, Yuvachon, are forced to wear shoes to drill, but on the way home happily carry them in their hands...
...experiments of Dr. Robert Marshall Stephan of the University of Illinois are borne out during the next few years, they may help to send the dentist's drill the way of blacksmith tools. Last week in Science, Dr. Stephan announced that he had found a neutralizer for tooth decay: urea...
...recruits to find their way by moon and stars across the trailless land. Commanding officers slaved at newfangled exercises, learning to use radio and motorcycle communication, use also the squadron of reconnaissance tanks which will be part of each new cavalry division. On the chill, white expanse of the drill ground or in the dank corrals, recruits learned the manual of arms, the ways of horses, impressed their officers with their "remarkable intensity and enthusiasm." Machine-gunners and artillerymen practiced firing at wheeled targets, cavorting down a winding, miniature railway...