Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cabbage and dumplings, but when they were gone, he and his wife dined on chicken and fish. He displayed Christianity-once he baptized a whole regiment with a garden hose -but in 1930 he turned to Buddhism. He was a strict disciplinarian, and when his soldiers were late for drill he made them stand in a corner for as long as they had been late. Once, when he himself was the offender, he cracked down on himself. "Feng Yu-hsiang is ten minutes late!" he bellowed on the drill ground. "Feng Yu-hsiang must stand in the corner...
William Booth became "General" and his new Salvation Army fell into step behind him as uniformed privates, noncoms and officers-with bands, "councils of war," "orders of the day" and "knee-drill" (prayer). The enemy was the Devil, and the Army marched to meet him wherever the going was toughest: in Skid Rows and slum alleyways...
...rough, tough Mike Benedum, "greatest wildcatter in the world," wanted just one more big strike. His Plymouth Oil Co. had leased 800 acres in desolate Upton County in western Texas and started to drill for oil. Plymouth drilled down 10,000 ft. and lost $1,000,000 before it quit. That...
Paul Finney '50 took charge of the depleted bank account at the same time. J. Rosson Overcash '49 and William J. Reinhardt '47 will continue as drill-master and drum-major respectively for the coming year...
...occasion. This week the main question mark rests on the status of right halfback and leading ground-gainer Ferd Nadberny, who limped through but four rushing plays against the Tigers. His recovery is not yet complete, and only Tuesday, he was forced to retire early from a pre-Harvard drill with his sprained foot still bothering...