Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dick Harlow's regime. Last year he was taken to the Varsity with the ranking of Field Coach. That season he did a little of everything, in fact a whole lot of everything, including the scouting of the opposition. This year he will handle the Freshman again and drill the Harlow system into them...
...acres were scrawny with drought and his back was bad with rheumatism. Finally he got him a cane to hobble around on. Chance came to Farmer Travis last spring when a gang of husky young men from the Southwest put up a derrick on his land and began to drill for oil. On May 23 they brought in an oil well which produced nearly 3,000 barrels the first 24 hours. That day Farmer Travis threw away his cane...
Having escaped the net of a conventional English education, Anglican religious drill, sports, the life of a country gentleman, marriage, and having enough money to avoid hack work but not enough to become a dilettante. Gibbon's last blessing in disguise (for history's sake, of course, says the biographer) was his failure as a politician. Elected to Parliament two years before the first volume of his history appeared. Gibbon fell in line with Tory policy regarding the American colonies; privately, and especially after reports of the first American victories, his confidence in the Government dropped to zero...
...stirring the patriotic fervor of church congregations to the point where they put up the cash for guns to arm the settlers. Smith raised a white war party of his own, outfitted them with breechclouts, knives, tomahawks; prescribed blackened faces, red-topped skulls, plenty of red war paint. Drill consisted in teaching his 50 men straight Indian tactics. Then nothing more was seen or heard of them for the rest of the summer. But no Indians were seen Or heard in the Conococheague Valley either. The Black Boys were beating the Indians at their own game. In the Spring Smith...
George Trivers held his story until he was well away from Annapolis: Instructors had treated him all right but midshipmen warned, "Nigger, stay away from us." During drill his toes were literally stepped on. In the gymnasium he could not pick up a basketball without having it snatched away. He went without sleep because the white boys pounded on the walls until the room seemed ready to cave in. Weak or strong, George Trivers decided enough was enough...