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Word: drills (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every comrade knows, Stakhanov was an obscure coal miner who persuaded three other miners to join with him in working as a gang to use their pneumatic drill more efficiently and thus increase production per man. Stakhanov was taken to Moscow, feted by Stalin, loaded with all sorts of presents, including a phonograph with the record Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf, and ever since the whole laboring mass of the Soviet Union has been urged, exhorted, tempted and commanded to emulate Stakhanov. Sluggards who do not want to speed up their work as Stakhanov did, have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Babbitt Bolsheviks | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

This new scheme will also give Neil Stahley, lacrosse coach, a chance to participate in the spring drill from 3 to 3:30 o'clock when lacrosse practice will start...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KEVORKIAN GOING UNDER KNIFE ON EVE OF PRACTICE | 3/13/1937 | See Source »

...infield drill Frank Owen was working at third in the first aggergation, with Captain Tom Bilodeau, Art Johns, Dave Shean, and Paul Doyle at short, second, first, and catching positions respectively. Phil Staples caught for the second outfit with Mal McTernen, John Sullivan. Dave MacIntosh, and Bill Lee filling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHIEF BOSTON THROWS DROPS AND FAST BALL | 3/4/1937 | See Source »

...Garden Saturday. When the Red team's Coach Jack Moakley was here for the BAA games, he felt that he had the makings of a fine, well balanced squad. And the justification of that prediction was shown at least in part in that meet in Ithaca's Drill Hall as the Cornell trackmen snowed under the Elis on the boards so completely that the bulldog superiority in some of the field events proved useless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/24/1937 | See Source »

Thomas H. Bilodeau '37, hard-hitting captain, shortstop, and all-around performer, leads a squad of prospective pitchers in the first baseball drill of the season this afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coach Mitchell Will Greet Baseballers Today, as Preliminary Training Starts | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

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