Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Headwork. In Bryn Mawr, Pa., surgeons found Factory Worker Freda McKeith partially scalped by a whirling drill, hastily sent for the scalp, successfully sewed...
Until the happy day when vitamin-coated gum-or some other near-magic-can stop tooth decay for. good, Pittsburgh's Dr. I. Franklin Miller suggests that dentists apply a smooth brand of psychology along with the drill. Dr. Miller recommends: waiting rooms full of knick-knacks to divert waiters; all the instruments of torture hidden; soft music, coffee and cigarets during "ten-minute breaks" in the grinding and probing...
...four full courses offered by the Military Sciences Department count toward the College degree and are taken on the basis of a four-year residence. A regular three hours a week are allotted to class room work, while Freshmen and Sophomores may check the two-hour weekly drill off against their required exercise...
Actually, even with all the modern improvements and extensions of the pickaxe, oil drilling was a rather precarious venture until this discovery. Contour mapping and geological surveys of suspected petroleum areas have led to reasonably good results, but the tremendous investment required to drill an oil well made a miss really a mile. Leet predicted that his discovery would take a great deal of the gamble out of the oil business...
...indoor track was warming up for its first postwar season. A lot of G.I. legs had been reconverted from close-order drill; the inevitable foreign threat was present. To the 4:06.4 indoor mile record there was no immediate threat. The most likely to break it: fleet-footed, but still slightly rusty Les MacMitchell...