Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because Dover still gets eight to ten siren warnings daily, the first lesson in 18 months was an air-raid drill: Teacher cried "Get in the cave," and pupils grabbed gas masks, cleared out in 30 seconds. At the second lesson they learned to dive under desks at the word "Shell...
...hammer, build), the experimental schools scrapped their formal curriculum and educated their pupils by "activities," e.g., keeping store, building a post office, taking an imaginary trip to California. Pupils picked up reading, writing and reckoning (with teachers' help) as they carried on their activities, instead of by formal drill...
...White, face!" should the drill sergeant, exasperated because Pvt, Huey, H.F., was dreaming of other matters in the rear rank...
Today' workout was the usual Thursday afternoon drill, with the emphasis, as it has been during the week, on punting under pressure and pass plays. MacKinney's kicking was outstanding, averaging fifty yards per boot despite the wet bell and sloppy footing, while bespectacled Don McNichol's handling of he slippery pigskin during the passing practice was little short of sensational...
Rather than yielding to penny-pinching, pound-wasting budget balancers who would throw out the CCC and other New Deal aids to the underprivileged, Congress should realize that wars are won at the supper table and in the dentist's and doctor's office, as well as on the drill fields of Devens. Using the CCC as framework, a series of semi-military camps could be set up to strengthen American youth both for battle and for peace. Anyone rejected for remedial defects should be at once subject to this physical reconditioning. No nations can hope to be strong with...