Word: sills
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They trained at Fort Sill. A chaplain-not Father Tiernan-undertook to give them a lecture on clean living. A rugged man, the chaplain stepped into a ring one night to make his point. He called for challengers. The boys of Battery D shoved Tommy Murphy into the ring. The chaplain held his finger in front of his own nose. "You try to hit it, son," he said. "I'll just show you what clean living and coordination do for you." With studied innocence, Tommy made a wild swing which the well coordinated chaplain easily ducked. "See?" said...
...windows of his office was open. Measuring, the police found that it was raised 28 inches, was 44 inches wide. Its sill was 33 inches above the floor. Was it possible that Duggan, who was slight, but fairly tall (5 ft. 10 in., 140 Ibs.), could have fallen out? How? Or had he jumped...
...watching his Kent School (Conn.) crew sprinting to victory past an English shell on the Thames, the Rev. Frederick H. Sill decided that British schoolboys ought to get a chance to visit the U.S. Last week chubby, blond Anthony Stewart Arnold was back in England, after a year at Kent on one of the Schoolboy Scholarships started by Father Sill 20 years ago. Like other young Britons who had made the trip last year, 18-year-old Tony Arnold thought that U.S. prep schools were great fun to visit-but no place to get an education...
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...After a few drinks, a soldier at Fort Sill, Okla. climbed into a 21-ton, self-propelled 155-mm. howitzer and, although he had never operated one before, drove it five miles into the town of Lawton (pop. 20,000), crashed into three autos, toured the business section, then rumbled on back to the fort-and into the guardhouse...