Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kicking and blocking were stressed as the Yardling linemen went through a drill with the machines and the backs practiced their passing and punting. The season opens on October 7 with the Exeter game...
...relief from four consecutive days of scrimmage, the Varsity football team yesterday ran through an easy drill with live tackling practice the only contact work. Precision and finesse were the afternoon by-words, as the A and B teams alternated offensively against a dummy defense...
...other ships on the way home, the inspectors poked and peered everywhere through the ship and took their sweet time, two days. One of them, amid much merriment, even managed to fall overboard (see cut p. 14). They even made the Bremen's crew go through lifeboat drill. Furious, an official of the line said: "Now they are searching an empty swimming pool." The delay cost Germany some $6,000. Worse, it gave the British cruiser Berwick ample time to slip out of Bar Harbor, Me. and tag the Bremen across the Atlantic...
...Berlin's children there was no evacuation. Schools were closed but children began each day with gas mask drill, prepared, if and when air raids came, to scurry to bomb shelters...
...sight, lives apart from the nation as a whole. Tommy Atkins still does great work for Britain in the colonies, but Tommy Atkins is seldom seen on the streets of London, Birmingham or Manchester. Heretofore Britain has always reckoned on her seapower to give the nation time to muster, drill and equip a force for Marlborough-Wellington offensive fighting on the Continent after war has been declared. The recent passage of a half-hearted conscription law points to a possible reorientation of British military policy...