Word: enjoyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adequately summarizes the annual encampment of the Corps of Cadets. To the newly recognized yearling summer camp is the fulfillment of all the hopes and dreams of a long plebe year just past; to the first classman it means chevrons and the privileges which only a first classman may enjoy; to everybody summer camp is a period of welcome relief and relaxation after a long and exacting academic grind. West Point life during the pleasant summer months more than lives up to the hopes entertained...
...nearest the President came to answering Democrats who twit him on the slump was when he said: "There are . . . several folks in the political world who resent the notion that things will ever get better and who wish to enjoy our temporary misery. To recount to these persons the progress . . . in amelioration . . . to mention that we are suffering far less than other countries, only inspires the unkind retort that we should fix our gaze solely upon the unhappy features of the decline...
...night are falling over Soldiers field one Saturday this fall the credit will not be permitted in the remotest degree to attach to the university at Cambridge. The victory will merely be a sportsmanlike achievement of a group of young amateurs who happen to attend classes there and enjoy the exercise. Cheers, if any, will be for the good old game of football, without the whisper of a hint that Harvard is involved...
...life . . . matters which lie within the power of the individual." Confesses Russell: "I was not born happy. ... In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics. Now, on the contrary, I enjoy life. . . . This is due partly . . . to having discovered what were the things that I most desired . . . partly ... to having successfully dismissed certain objects of desire. . . . But very largely it is due to a diminishing preoccupation with myself...
...consequence of the imposition of any duties under the provisions of this act, the Governor in council may reduce or remove such duty." As well they might, Bennett cohorts boasted last week that this clause is a great, novel, constructive piece of statecraft. Citizens of the U. S. enjoy no such safeguard against price-jacking and purse-gouging by their own protected industries. 25,000 Jobs. As a "minimum" and "immediate" result of his fixed tariff, Mr. Bennett promised Canadians last week 25.000 new jobs. Explaining how he had arbitrarily determined which producers to protect, he said slowly, pompously...