Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...field and a tough team is the program for the soccer show that will take place this noon when the Crimson meet the Brown eleven on the Business School field. But judging from the Carrmen's spirited kicking drill yesterday, they are in the best of midseason form and should keep the Bears well under control...
Plans for an undergraduate drill corps received a severe set-back last night when the Student Council went on record as being opposed to "any form of military drill with the exception of a possible expansion of the R.O.T.C...
...Council believes that any program of military training at Harvard should be confined to its technical or classroom aspects," the statement read, adding that "condemnation of military drill at this time is in complete accord with a large majority of opinion on this question...
Coach Snavely, 46-year-old minister's son who never swears nor smiles on a football field, has a simple formula for winning games: "Leave nothing to chance." Cornell's remarkable timing, brilliant deception and smooth execution of assignments are the result of intelligence but also of drill. With the meticulousness of a scientist, Snavely has moving pictures taken of every move his players make. He spends the first three days of each week poring over slow-motion pictures of the previous Saturday's game, sends his players long letters analyzing every play, pointing out each...
...relief column!" Solemn-faced Producer DeMille, who works himself into the proper mood by donning such lavish haberdashery as forest-green gabardine riding costumes, bows to no stickler for technical accuracy. A thousand volumes were probed in research for North West Mounted Police. A "mounty" was imported to drill a squadron of extras. A forest of 400 pine trees, requiring a State fire warden, converted six acres of the Paramount lot into rugged backwoods. This earnest devotion to accuracy left little time for comedy, suspense and other standbys of good swashbuckling melodrama...