Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beings, only considering the physical world as a means, not an end in his studies. Seldom indeed could you go to Mr. Norton with a question, without finding that he had an answer to it, for he was a man whose work was studying---elaborate, sever, day by day drill...
...Dust Twins, Miss Rosanna Fiske and Miss Dorothy Neyhart, and Miss Linda Wellington, as Cream of Wheat are the other black-faced comediennes. If they can all flap pan-cakes, wash dishes, and cook cereal as well as they act, the girls of this number deserve laurel wreaths. The Drill this year is as perfectly executed as it has ever been. The Fan costumes are most attractive...
...credence. Oil investors seem to have been fascinated by the romance of geology, and to have assumed in many cases that geological predictions were infallible. Of course all that the most experienced geologist can do is to give the best professional advice as to where to lease and to drill, based on his superior and scientific knowledge of the strata and of technical conditions in that particular locality. In any case, some underlying conditions must remain unknown until the "sands" are tapped by the drill. The success of operations based on geological predictions ranges all the way from...
Yesterday's workout for the back-field consisted in punting and running back kicks, while the line was given practice in charging. Towards the end of the afternoon three full teams, with practically the same line-ups as on Thursday, ran through a short signal drill...
...principles that underlie modern educational practise. Students of varying purpose and varying ambitions are, of course, desirable and welcome and a number of special programs are provided, as for example in physical education. Although the School wants most those men and women who seek something more than mere drill in the business of teaching, it includes among its aims that of rendering inexperienced students more immediately effective in their first school posts. The requirements of various states and cites for licenses to teach now make some technical work in education a necessity, and such requirements are amply...