Word: drilled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present the apse of the Germanic Museum on Kirkland Street is being considered for the Catholics, while the Memorial Chapel will probably be used by the Protestants. In wet weather Memorial Hall will be utilized as a drill hall for the entire unit...
...regular members of the Harvard Company are drilled once a month with other units of the Cambridge Auxiliary Police on the lawns around Memorial Hall or inside the Hall when the weather is bad. The new recruits have been drilled once a week for about a month and will all receive their arm bands as regular members after next week's drill. The Auxiliary Police are always on call. Forty-four out of the 48 appeared for the practice air raid that was held a short while...
...their drills, which are usually held in the evenings, the Auxiliary Police are trained in marching rife formations, the technique of making an arrest, and elementary first aid. Military drill instills the sense of cohesion in the unit and gives the police the same advantage in riots that a regiment of regulars has against untrained men in warfare...
...Along with tanks and planes, the U.S. has sent Russia 10,000 Ford trucks, 500,000 rolls of adhesive tape, 100 medical books, tin, wheat, flour, butter, steel, aviation gasoline, machine tools and machinery to drill oil wells, laundry and toilet soap, sulfa drugs...
...late summer of 1941 the middle classes lost their one remaining means of ever influencing the Nazi German State. For every practical purpose the middle-class army-the SA Brown Shirts-was disbanded. It was forbidden to meet or drill. Smith says the SA was disbanded because "it was an organization. An organization is the kernel of political action," and political action by the deceived and squeezed-out middle class might have been against those in power...