Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of their music, he said, "sounded like a dentist's drill or a musical gas wagon. ... It is simply beyond endurance," he roared. "Pay attention to this...
...hour, the ship's placid routine was not disturbed. Then, at fire and boat drill, Tomas Montanez was missed. The ship turned back upon her course. Officers engaged in minute calculations. Sailors swarmed up to the crosstrees and passengers lined the rails to stare at the twinkling, pitiless face of the sea. Though there was no hope that Tomas Montanez would be found, the curious code of civilization demanded that a thorough search be made. Then, amazingly, after an hour and a quarter, a passenger raised a shout...
...Committee must first weigh the value of the training that the bill proposes. The part that UMT will take in the shaping of the individual trainee's personality is a comparatively minor matter. Certainly six months of boredom, frustration, and close order drill will mold the conscriptee into neither a "fine upstanding youth" nor a "neo-fascist" unless he had strong tendencies in one of those directions at the outset...
Coach Barclay put his sagging Varsity basketball team through a lengthy drill in the Blockhouse last night following weekend losses (both by scores of 71 to 59) to Cornell and Columbia. The Crimson meets Pennsylvania in the Arena tonight at 9:30 o'clock...
Palomar Mountain is more pleasant than most. The dormitory (called the "Monastery") is pleasant too. For day-sleeping astronomers, the bedrooms have soundproofed walls and doors and black window shades. The only intruders in this astronomical Eden are the woodpeckers that like to drill away at the Monastery's copper roof...