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Word: drilling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hours of physical education is a sensible requirement; but athletes will certainly give as much time as this to exercise; and as for other students, the word "must" reverberates unpleasantly, and required physical drill shortly assumed a most repellent aspect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLLEGIATE TIME CLOCK | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...Tentative results of this survey show the most common occupations to be: factory work (assembling, packing, inspection, glass-cutting, working punch and drill presses); piano tuning; store & stand keeping; salesmanship (especially insurance); teaching; music (organ, radio concert work, vaudeville, orchestra). Less fre- quent occupations: osteopathy, journalism, poultry raising, stenography, law, operating dictaphones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blind Deeds | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

...basketball team, known as the "Nonpareils", which is composed of members of the Business School, succeeded in defeating the M.A.C. five 28 to 25 in a hard fought practice game, which was played off in the Old Drill Hall at Amherst Saturday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "NONPAREILS" DEFEAT M.A.C. FIVE | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

...University hoopmen have been going through stiff drill and scrimmage practice in the past four days. The combination of H. T. Wenner '30 and A. W. Slocum '28 at the forward positions, and J. N. Barbee '28 and R. L. Hatch '28 at guard ought to make trouble for the Purple team, as evidenced by the scoring power that the Crimson men showed in some of the recent games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMHERST QUINTET INVADES CRIMSON TERRITORY TONIGHT | 2/3/1928 | See Source »

After a preliminary drill-practice, consisting of work in handling and passing the ball, Coach E. W. Wachter sent the men through several minutes of scrimmaging. A. M. Samborski '25, Freshman coach, confined the first year team's practice to a light work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY AND 1931 HOOPMEN RESUME WORK | 2/1/1928 | See Source »

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