Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When asked the length and importance of his spring practice Harlow said that at Western Maryland he was accustomed to drill his players for about three and a half weeks in the spring, and that spring workouts were especially important when a new regime went into office...
Coach Wes Fesler had his men drill for the Jumbo zone defense yesterday, and polished off his rotating attack which now concentrates on getting the two tall men, Bill Gray and Captain Dick Boys, down under the opponents basket with the greatest possible speed...
...couples. Arthur Wittmer and his wife, Margaret Walbrol, practicing nudists, lived with their two children in a corrugated zinc hut. Dr. Karl Ritter and Frau Dore Koervin had abandoned their respective spouses to seek Utopian freedom. Dr. Ritter was a dentist. Thinking of life 800 miles from an electric drill, he had all his own teeth pulled, substituting an indestructible set of stainless steel grinders...
...Washington County, Ohio, three years ago J. W. Yerian, 61, and John Hupp, 69, onetime oil-riggers, went to the poorhouse to live. Last summer their Superintendent smiled indulgently when they cackled of oil in the back yard, gave them permission to drill. From grinning neighbors they borrowed drill and engine. Fuel they had none till they discovered and worked a seam of coal on the grounds. Three weeks of drilling and they struck oil-30 barrels a day. Last week Superintendent and neighbors grinned no more when Yerian & Hupp turned down $10,000 for the well, organized Pauper...
...Britain with a heavy cargo of TNT. Several days out of New York he received a radiogram from the U.S. Navy Department to the effect that a bomb hidden aboard his ship was timed to explode that very noon. Captain Claret ordered the crew to make a search drill, did not tell them why. When they failed to find anything, he stood anxiously on the bridge, waited watch in hand. Noon came & went. Nothing happened. Claret had about decided that it was a false alarm when at 12:30 the forward deck suddenly erupted. By some miracle the bomb...