Word: drilling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blackboard Labor. He took a job as traveling salesman for a textbook publishing company, and it was then that he got his big idea. In classroom after classroom, he had seen children laboriously copying off spelling drills from the blackboard. From his own experience, he knew that the teacher had probably spent hours thinking up the exercises. W.P. began to wonder whether there might not be a simpler way to carry on the drill...
...Bookishness. The world of modern education, as Smith found it, is one in which drill and discipline are taboo, and teachers have become abnormally afraid of boring pupils or straining their abilities. In worrying about such matters, they have long belittled what they call "verbal intelligence" and "bookishness," forgetting that "by far the greater part of man's wisdom is stored up in books...
Smart Amateurs. Owners of small farms were also cashing in. George Parks, a meatcutter who did a little ranching on the side, is now reportedly worth $250,000. Farmer Herman Huckabee is getting $3,500 a month in royalties. Farmer Jackson Ellis could not afford to hire a drilling crew. So he and five of his strapping sons took jobs as roughnecks until they learned how to drill an oil well. Then they bought some secondhand equipment and drilled five shallow wells on their own place, where the sixth and youngest son worked with them as a water...
...addition, the team ran through its offensive repertoire in a dummy drill that lasted more than an hour. Three units, with backfields constantly shifting, ran through passing and running plasy...
Twenty minutes on the tackling dummies--the second time in as many days that Valpey has used the swinging targets to compensate for the enforced lack of scrimmage--and half an hour of spirited signal drill wound up the practice...