Word: rigorousity
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Shot partly on the 501st's home grounds at Fort Benning, Ga., Parachute Battalion follows the rigorous training of a modern parachutist with documentary nicety. And its shiploads of husky, fully equipped youngsters cascading out of their transports like peas from a pod make first-rate drama.
In Nazi Germany, where future Führers are chosen at the age of 8 and finish their rigorous training in mountain castles, nobody would think of singing such a ditty. But in the closest U.S. equivalent, a student-leadership institute at President Roosevelt's summer house in Campobello...
No Blues were noticeable around Mutual. MBS, theoretically a non-profit-making organization which lacks any real central executive, and functions in fact as a glorified switchboard (stations pay wire charges themselves), is in position to meet the rigorous new network limitations imposed by FCC. If, as the decrees in...
Retired and 80 though he is, "Black Jack" Pershing still has his hand on the U.S. Army. "Pershing men" who survived service with him in the Philippines, on the Texas border, in World War I, have shared largely in recent promotions, have many a key staff or command assignment. One...
Army officials have long favored a lower draft age, suggesting 18 to 22 as the proper training period. They have argued that a man is in his prime physical condition at that time, he is more amenable to rigorous discipline, and he is psychologically fit for army life.