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...take every advantage of shipping space, every advantage of materiel, we developed all possible shortcuts. We went to double bunks in cantonments. The expeditionary forces that are now in North Africa lived in pup tents for months prior to their departure for that campaign, to toughen the men and to make their cantonments available for new divisions...
...London and Washington, however, it looked as if Comrade Stalin were doing more than having a little grim fun with his allies and trying to toughen up the war.* Stalin, they suspected, had not forgotten that Hess went to Britain to seek an ally against Bolshevism. Perhaps Stalin, brooding over the shortcomings of his allies (TIME, Oct. 12), feared that Hess might be exerting some influence in Britain...
Conditioning exercises will be given for the first month of practice to toughen the swimmers for the coming aquatic season. After the dry land training, swimming practice, lasting for an hour and a half each afternoon, will help to whip the team into shape for its meets, the first of which is with M.I.T. on December...
...program aimed at complete physical fitness, Yale University is organizing Commando combat teams which will undertake a voluntary training program modeled on the Olympic Pentathlon. The Yale unit will not, however, prepare students for war but merely toughen them for future training...
...compulsory athletic program was introduced by the University last spring in an effort to "toughen" students who would soon enter the armed forces. Seniors were exempt at first, but they have been included under the present...