Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...front of the house and then retrace their steps to the rear, meanwhile eyeing the audience and staring down curious spectators. Sumner insists that the sole purpose of the maneuver is to attend to the convenience and comfort of his audiences and denies all reports of morning drill sessions for his usher corps...
Unexpectedly, the school gong rang, and at the signal (which teachers mistook for a fire drill) 260 students filed out of the brick schoolhouse. Gallused tobacco growers loafing around the country courthouse in Rogersville, Tenn. (pop. 2,018) watched the kids coming, gaped in surprise when they read the cardboard signs. The kids were on strike for something kids weren't supposed to care too much about: they wanted more and better teachers...
This mail-order bookkeeping service was the brain child of Jack Hession, 36, who learned his bookkeeping as a federal bank examiner, got his financial backing through his war job as a drill-press operator in Consolidated-Vultee's San Diego plant. On the next machine was Charles Silverman, who had always made money fast (he sold his Boston-New York bus line in 1929 for a fat price), but had not hung...
...behind the "Miracle" were both with the Band while at College: Malcolm H. Holmes '29, Dean of the New England Conservatory of Music, Conductor; and Guy Slade '32, Drill Master. Bandmen fondly recall Holmes whacking the bass drum 14 years ago. A niche is secure for Leroy Anderson '29, arranger for the Boston Pops, composer of the famed 'Wintergreen," first gridiron composition of its kind introduced in 1933, and the beloved "Harvard Medley...
...Miracle?" With one musical rehearsal on Wednesday evening in Sanders Theatre, a single drill run-through on Friday afternoon behind the Stadium, and one coordinated practice session two hours before game time, those in the know think the term far from strong. Saving grace is that when the unit comes onto the field ten minutes before the game, it is keyed up by two hours of concentrated effort in blending "sound" and "action." It passes quickly into formations which only a day or two before were nothing more than ideas and, half an hour before, a seeming hopeless shambles...