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...Waterloo. Aside from radar, electronics is one of the most versatile developments of World War II. In industry, electronic tubes perform such diversified jobs as shutting off the air in a Bessemer furnace when the molten steel reaches exactly the right white-hot brilliance, tempering shell casings to toughen them, examining all sorts of materials for hidden flaws...
Every soldier is put with men at his own stage of recovery to do group exercises - even the ones with injured legs can toughen the rest of their bodies. Aim is to make a man ready for regular duty the day he returns to his unit...
...called high standards of living for the past generation - and one-third of our youth are unfit for military service. And many that pass our none-too-high physical standards for entrance into the Army require much time and patience to harden physically-even more time and patience to toughen morally...
Jaakko Mikkola will handle two track squads: a regular one, and a newly-instituted military track squad, which will highlight a sort of miniature commando course, with distance and sprint rush jumping, and obstacle races designed to toughen up the prospective soldier...
Exercise are designed to toughen and build up every part of every student's body, and to do this most attention has to be put on the abdominal muscles, Samborski, who is Director of Intramural Athletics, explained. "All of us use our legs and arms every day, but it's flabby stomach muscles that we have to work on." Result: a marked affection for gutstraining, leg-raising mayhem and belly grinds...