Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engineering or flying training being the equivalent of courses in college. Failing this, a degree-bound Senior could do some study in absentia and get his diploma later. Everyone won't be on active duty in Hong Kong or Dakar, and if Thomas Paine wrote "The Crisis" on a drum-head to the sound of musketry, Harvard men should be able to turn out a course paper in an army camp...
When I dipt into the future far as hu- man eye could see, Saw the vision of the world and all the wonder that would be. . . . Till the war-drum throbb'd no longer, and the battle-flags were furl'd In the Parliament of man, the Federa- tion of the World...
...outfit is the Tank Destroyer Battalion, a fast-moving, hard-hitting team whose job is to go out and hunt tanks, not wait for them in passive defense. Brought to its most efficient peak in the Carolina maneuvers by First Army's wily Lieut. General Hugh Drum, the TD Battalion is already beyond the paper stage. The Army announced that 52 of the battalions had started organization and training, that it was abandoning its more static Tank Defense groups...
...Hugh Drum showed himself as foxy as ever. On the first day of the battle, he sent a young lieutenant and a motorized cavalry patrol on a 200-mile run around his left end to see what they could find. One of his motorcycle men turned up next day with just what the boss wanted-the Reds' combat plans. The patrol had raided a motor park far in the rear, swiped a batch of marked maps and combat orders and made off with them...
Consequently, when Oscar Griswold went after his slippery adversary, there was little up his sleeve but determination. The Rolling Fourth plowed into Drum's center, inflicting heavy "casualties" and slowing up the Blue advance. The First Armored swung to the west and plowed into Drum's flank. The Second went around the other end. In the center and on the flanks a Donnybrook Fair began...