Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lawrence steamer lanes. In one spot the scrubby balsam firs had been cleared and a power shovel scooped deep into the earth. At week's end, under a crisp, blue sky, a couple of dozen Madelinot workmen stood around with mining engineers and newsmen to watch a diamond drill bite into the cocoa-colored rock. At a depth of 49 ft. the drill hit high-grade ore containing about 53% metallic manganese. With 40,000 tons proven reserves, and 140,000 more probable, it looked like a good thing for the island, and Quebec Manganese Mines, Ltd. Every...
Football's fetish for specialization had produced "passers who don't block, and fullbacks who never play when the other team has the ball. Now the quarterback, who used to be the team's field general, was being demoted to drill sergeant. It was all the result of the unlimited substitution rule (TIME...
With Jim Kenary, Leo Flynn, and Ken O'Donnell throwing long and short ones, the A and B teams negotiated a long pass offense-defense drill as football practice, like classes, roared on despite the heavenly outbursts...
...field yesterday, tiger-tamer Dick Harlow and his fellow coaches were stymied by the ever-present hour exams. Only about half of the projected starting even got out to the tenth-hour drill, and practice was cut short at 5"15 o'clock...
...addition to the passing drill, the squad worked on its punts and downfield kick covering. A session of non-contact defensive work against Princeton offenses led into the concluding signal drill...