Word: drills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Work will start in earnest on Monday when tentative seatings will be announced for the first time, and the crews will drill in the tank until the ice goes...
...storming the "Fortress of Faith." Massed brass bands blared, everybody burst into song and with tremendous enthusiasm the "Defenders of the Faith" rushed down and scattered the forces of evil. More quietly but with smart military precision the graduating class deployed, reformed ranks, ran through a series of drill maneuvers. Then Aimee Semple McPherson, founder of LIFE, appeared on the stage of her Angelus Temple, sermonized until long after midnight...
...them their rights, journeyed to Washington to ask the State Department's Office of Arms & Munitions Control for licenses to peddle their wares in Burgos or Madrid. In each case, gimlet-eyed Chief Joseph Coy Green, who used to curdle the blood of lazy Princeton freshmen with his drill sergeant ways, would either wheedle or scare the applicant into dropping his request...
...series of vaudeville blackouts, he is soon befuddling the Army psychological examiners while they are trying to catechize him; enraging the drill sergeant who will not realize that Johnny is lefthanded; unintentionally stealing the captain's girl. From this rough & tumble, the show then leaps to exalted heights when Johnny apostrophizes the Statue of Liberty as he sails away to France. And from the revue stage and poetic drama, the play proceeds to a forceful sequence of impressionistic scenes. Johnny is found in a trench with his company and while they writhe their twisted limbs in troubled sleep, three...
...down to the bone. Each slit lies slightly more than an inch away from the midline of the skull and crosses a line running across the head from ear to ear. At each junction of the ear-to-ear line and the slits in the scalp, Drs. Freeman & Watts drill a hole with a dentist's bur. The bur holes permit passage of a leucotome, or lobotomy cannula, a hollow needle through which a loop of wire can be slipped...