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...Artillery unit, headed by Colonel William S. Wood and under the same command as the QM ROTC. About 250 men are organized into two battalions which drill once a week each on Soldiers Field. Obstacle course, infantry drill, communications, and above all training with four new 105 mm. howitzers sharpen the abilities of these future artillerymen, for live ammunition...
Appointments to meet the tricky twosome should be made by phoning Brooks House today or Saturday. Hyde said last night that aside from settling once and for all their title, the practice would give the boys a chance to sharpen their wits. He added confidently, that if they were beaten, the winners would meet Jacoby and Meusel...
...peak of his fistic career. Always slow at getting himself into fighting shape, Louis has been hindered, not helped, by the cavalry. Used to training for six weeks or more, he may find four weeks too short to get his fill of roadwork before starting to sharpen his timing...
...Sharpen the Blade. A unique segment of the Japanese army is the Kwantung army, and Itagaki is its master. He and his companions in conquest shaped it for a single purpose: the extension of Japanese sway over northern Asia. The creation of Manchukuo achieved part of this aim; only attack on Russian Asia can complete the scheme...
...three jiggers of whiskey sharpen the senses for a few minutes, also increase muscular skill. At the same time, liquor -by blunting higher brain centers -dulls judgment, makes it difficult to discriminate between the loudness of two tones, brightness of two lights, truth of two ideas. The "brilliant conversation" induced by champagne is merely a flow of "superficial ideas" which are freed from the restraint of the brain's censor...