Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the many University athletic buildings every day pass thousands of men who are conditioning themselves in the accelerated physical program here at Harvard. After a cross country workout, or a grimy football drill, or calisthenics class, it is taken for granted that there will be a refreshing shower and a clean towel waiting at the various athletic buildings. Few men realize that every towel used in the athletic program is laundered by the University right here at Dillon Field House...
Much to the relief of the Administration, the neighbors, and those addicted to Sack Drill, the place has finally quieted down. In fact, there is nothing doing. It might be the effect of the Beer Bust of last week, but we rather doubt that. We think it's probably just the heat...
...nearly 50 Crimson gridmen who reported to head coach Henry Lamar for the opening 1944 drill yesterday at Soldiers Field, will come the Crimson eleven which will charge out onto the Stadium turf next September...
Last week a crew of oilmen prepared to drill the first well on a ranch far down in the southwest corner of Alberta. Aware of oil deposits elsewhere in the neighborhood, the owner had hired geologists to examine his land. They reported: it's worth trying. Last week the owner, who had not visited the ranch in nearly three years, reached the U.S. Said the owner (the Duke of Windsor) to reporters in Miami (see PEOPLE) : he and the Duchess would visit Washington and Manhattan, and just possibly might stop off at his ranch in Alberta...
...Corps still has no Negro officers. But it has 16,000 strapping Negro enlisted men. Some of them have become hard-boiled drill instructors in the classic mold and some have reached the top enlisted grade-sergeant major...