Word: sills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before he came to Harvard in December, Colonel Hays saw a great deal of service at Army schools throughout the country. After graduating from West Point in 1906, he was a Lieutenant Colonel in the World War, and then taught at Fort Sill and the Army War College in Washington...
Largesse. In Manhattan, an unemployed waitress perched on a window sill, showered $14-worth of nickels, dimes, quarters to passers-by in the street. She explained to police: "I felt sorry for those poor men." An indignant waiter sputtered that the largesse was his cache of tips...
Excellent ability and aptitude for military science and tactics won him a place on the list of those chosen to go to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, for further artillery officer training. Spreyer, a dangerous climax runner, had been expected to be the mainstay of the Crimson backfield this fall...
Many's the time Father Sill, the Kent headmaster emeritus, used something suspiciously like it as an important aid to discipline. Let there be a general breach of school rules (but no tangible evidence to pin the blame on someone in particular) and out would come the familiar dodge: "I've got a list of every boy who's been smoking. ..." I can hear...
...Shame on Father Sill for employing such unscrupulous methods...