Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tall (6 ft. 3), slim, shy Howard Robard Hughes is a rich man's son: his father invented a high-speed oil drill, left a multimillion-dollar fortune. But Howard Hughes has never coasted on his inheritance. He showed a technician's touch even in boyhood, built his own motorcycle and radio set, invented a pretty good shock absorber, got admitted to California Institute of Technology for special courses before he was old enough to enroll as a regular student...
Wednesday afternoon 800 officers of the Naval Training Schools at Harvard, including the 500 who will graduate this morning, participated in their final drill on Soldiers Field as they were reviewed for the first time by Captain George N. Barker, commanding officer of the Harvard Training Schools...
After combat team drill has been practiced and mastered by the unit, Grant plans to undertake actual problems frequently met with in guerrilla warfare...
...such subjects as military law, defense against chemical warfare, map reading, and various duties of the chaplain at the front. Physical exercise comes in for a lot of attention, and according to officials of the school, plenty is needed to get the ministers ready for action. Exercise and drill fills the afternoon...
Members of Harvard's ROTC who drill twice a week and often find themselves tied up in knots while trying to march correctly, were told by Captain Andrew Marshall, Jr. '34 that all it took to march was a little rhythm. "We were all born with it," Captain Marshall said, "but lost it after three weeks at Harvard...