Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cots in the train that took them to Washington's Walter Reed Hospital, almost a year had passed since that calm Sunday afternoon when the Mare Island Navy Yard intercepted the message: From CINCPAC to all ships present Hawaiian area: Air raid on Pearl Harbor. This is no drill...
Open to all students over 18, even those in 4F, the First Motor Squadron of the Massachusetts State Guard will drill once a week during the winter, according to Elliot Perkins '23, director of the War Service Information Bureau...
...Brain Is Sliced. In their development of Dr. Moniz' methods, Drs. Freeman and Watts drill a small hole in the temple on each side of the patient's head where two skull bones meet. Surgeon Watts then inserts a dull knife into the brain, makes a fan-shaped incision upward through the prefrontal lobe, then downward a few minutes later. He then repeats the incisions on the other side of the brain. No brain tissues are removed. (In two operations they have cut cerebral arteries. Both patients died...
...weeks' indoctrination course at the Army Chaplains School at Harvard. Last month this school graduated a class of 381, including 264 Protestants, 105 Roman Catholics, twelve Jews. During the course, chaplain candidates live six and eight to a suite in Harvard dormitories, have a stiff regimen of Army drill and exercise, cram such subjects as discipline, military law, hygiene and first aid, topography, field service regulations, Army morale, music, and defense against poison...
Jackie Cooper, Max Baer and others give these parts the earnest locker-room charm which is one of the best things about action pictures. In this heavily masculine maritime setting Cinemactress Wyatt is as out of place as a ladies' first-aid drill on Henderson Field...