Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...held, and most of the letter men returning came out bolstered by a few Freshman veterans and by some unknowns seeking the exercise. Headed by Captain Leavitt S. White '37, the first Junior to head a Crimson quintet for over a decade, the candidates went through a light drill, in preparation for the heavier work to come...
...done without public dispute since Catholic Hitler raised him from the rank of army chaplain to be the most unpopular head of Protestantism Germany has ever had. To Muller's question "Do you take this woman. . . ?" Göring replied "JA!" with the bellow of a drill sergeant. The State Actress answered "ja" so softly she could scarcely be heard...
...Japan. His son, Vadim Stefan Makaroff, first arrived in the U. S. in 1917 as assistant naval attache at Washington, returned to help Admiral Kolchak fight the Bolsheviks. Back in the U. S. in 1921 to get a job. he worked for Midwest Refining Co., helped introduce the diamond drill, perfected a system of freezing orange juice in paper containers, organized Makaroff & Co. which became one of the biggest U. S. caviar importing companies, married A. & P. Heiress Josephine Hartford ("Jo") O'Donnell...
Into his place bounded hard-driving Hugh Baillie, executive vice president. Lean, bristle-haired, Hugh Baillie talks like a drill sergeant, moves like a football halfback. For a year he has shouldered most of the presidential responsibilities at U. P.'s Manhattan headquarters. By Karl Bickel's age formula. President Baillie's tenure should be six years...
Black Shirt henchmen said that the precise degree of dedication is calculated from the number of meetings a Mosleyite has attended, his degree of proficiency in Fascist drill and the amount of his success in selling by door-to-door canvassing methods Sir Oswald's party organ, The Black Shirt...