Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dollars a year. It is not a case of some preposterously wealthy and generous retired capitalist. It is not revenue from an enormous endowment fund. The income is the university's one-eighth royalty on the output of the Group 1 Oil Company, organized three years ago to drill on land that the university chanced to own. Last week the company's directors declared three monthly dividends of $250 a share on the 2,048 shares outstanding, which, when paid, will bring the total dividend for the year ending in July to $2,415 a share. Last year...
...University team was outside for about two hours when they were put through a general workout and a long batting drill. After this, Coach Mitchell lined the men up for infield practice with two teams...
...events of the past week testify in a striking fashion to the reaction which has set in against the application of a system of military conscription to American schools and colleges. At Amherst, a conclave of New England high school principals adopted resolutions against compulsory drill and even more noteworthy in view of the almost complete dominance of the R. O. T. C. there a year ago, President Marsh has ruled that military science shall no longer be a required course at Boston University...
...ascertain the nature of the ground in which the foundations must be laid. With four different gangs working, eleven borings have been made in all, nine through the ice on the river and one on each bank. The figures taken at boring number four, one of those where the drill was set up on the ice, indicate a considerable layer of clay under the river bottom which the superintendent of the works declared would be favorable to further construction. Plans for the bridge have been drawn, but arrangements for the entire work have not been definitely completed...
...dissolved Parliament, suppressed newspapers unfavorable to him, raised a forced loan (TIME, Feb. 1), and generally conducted himself with the arbitrariness of a Napoleon, without exhibiting the Corsican's personal charm. He is General Theodore Pangalos. He is said habitually to adorn his commands with the oaths of a drill sergeant. Last week he ripped out several terse orders. Promptly 15 Greek officers and politicians were marched aboard a ship and departed into exile. Pangalos barked again and all citizens were ordered to deliver up whatever "military" firearms they possessed, within a month. The official apologia declared that these steps...