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The Spectator at war: Marching orders

From ‘The Psychology of Drill’, The Spectator, 20 February 1915:

One is tempted to divide all men under drill into two classes—the precipitate and the tardy. Every one who has listened to a drill instructor’s words knows that the first part of a command is cautionary.

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