Word: expectant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...author of the "Ode On the Intimations", etc.--what did he read in his off moments for inspiration? Alas, we guessed wrong. Wordsworth's own name is neatly penned on the title page of "Memoirs of the Most Material Transactions in England for the Last Hundred Years." We could expect C. Lamb, who was a poet after all, to read Euripides, and Milton is always Milton except when he writes in the guest book of an Italian nobleman: "if virtue feebly were, etc., Joannes Miltonius...
...Bingham opened the meeting by speaking briefly on the plans for the season and emphasizing the need of fall practice for men who expect to take part in track athletics this spring. Dr. Parmenter spoke in regard to training and Captain Burke urged the men to start serious work immediately. The coaches and managers are in hopes of securing more material for the squad and men reporting this afternoon will be placed under no handicap because of their late start...
...their first season, 1921; this summer they were a tremendous success. The training was well planned, mistakes of the previous year were corrected, and the benefits accruing to the government and to the men taking the training were fully as great as even the most optimistic could reasonably expect from four weeks' work. These benefits have been enumerated often; improved physique, training in citizenship, preparation for national defence, and a host of others. Far less often is the public told of the lessons learned by the officers in charge of the training, not from any unwillingness on the part...
...Officers' Reserve Corps in time of war. The men taking training when they arrived at camp were of much the same calibre as those who would compose the drafts of untrained men in war-time. The Reserve officers on duty were the same men who would be expected to provide a large percentage of the leaders of an expanded army. Yet neither officers nor men showed at the end of a month's training that degree of military perfection that the average citizen might be led to expect of them, if he based his opinion entirely on the statements...
What revelations may we not expect to enjoy! The "inside" story of the Kaiser's life as laid bare not long ago by his family physician will undoubtedly be quite outclassed. To be sure, "memoirs" are usually associated with the dead. But perhaps the late Emperor considers himself as good as dead--politically at least. And "dead men's tales" are always the most interesting! That they are expected to find a ready audience over here is evident, for McClure paid in the neighborhood of a quarter of a million dollars for them--enough to buy several cords of wood...