Word: drills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the winter months about 150 men are constantly at work repairing the building and furniture. Blacksmiths, carpenters, electricians, painters, plumbers, metal-workers, and mechanics are in demand. Besides the customary machines the Maintenance Shops have engines that drill square holes, air pumps which suck away shavings, steam heaters to soften lumber, and knife-edge power wood cutters which, if misrun, could hurl a razor-like slug of tool steel right through the operator. Roofing, metal shaping, forging, pipe drilling, and key making, are some of the activities at the river-front shops. In the familiar yellow building...
There was light work for the Varsity squad yesterday, as the tapering off process for the Virginia game began. Defensive play doping against the C "Virginia" team featured the afternoon work, followed by punting under pressure and signal drill...
Twenty hours of drill are taken with each yearly dose of Military Science. This drill period is supposed to teach the practical handling of field artillery and, in addition, to instill vague qualities of "leadership and discipline." Twenty hours is an extremely short time in which to teach a single subject, yet the R.O.T.C. instructors have assigned to this period a dozen complicated and lengthy activities. The result is pitiful dabbling in each and success in none...
Each student is supposed to allot to Military Science drill ten afternoons a year. This scanty time is split up between horsemanship, foot drills working 75mm guns, and practice with miniature cannons. Too much attempted and nothing accomplished is indicative of the whole department, as the student has no time to learn any one subject well...
...capable officer and expert tactician who has long been submerged in the political squabbles of Spain's Leftist Government. With his predecessor, General Jose Asenseo, booted upstairs to Undersecretary of War, General Pozas moved mountains to get a sense of discipline and a few rudiments of drill into his militiamen. A lucky hit by a rebel bomber on a reported Russian freighter unloading at Cartagena seemed to prove Britain's assertion that Russia was supplying tanks, artillery and planes to Spain's Red Government, but practically none of this material last week reached the Madrid front. President...