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Updated: May 11, 2025
If I didn't know for sure it was right, I'd be just as certain it was wrong!" and so the paraphrase remained, to astonish the eyes of Miss Bruce, and give her a hearty laugh in the midst of the dreary work of reading examination papers that evening. "Well, who comes out first in the exams it is impossible to say, but there is no doubt who will be last!
They decided to ask thirty of the Berwick young people, fifteen girls and fifteen boys. "I wish Bob could be home!" sighed Dotty; and Dolly echoed the wish for her own brother. But the boys of the two families were deep in school exams and could not think of coming home for a party. Of course the Fayres decided on the invitation list, but everything else was mutually arranged.
But if that's out of the question, and only you know that, for only you know the facts, the next best thing is this, and in all humility I make the suggestion. Take the State exams under your present name, and when you've got your certificate, come in with me. This isn't magnanimity. I'll be getting a damn sight more than I give. Think it over, old man.
He needed a flight ticket, first, and even though he had had the necessary grounding in astrogation technique and spacepiloting as an automatic part of his education aboard the Valhalla, he was rusty, and needed a refresher course that took six weary months. After that came the physical exams and the mental checkup and everything else. Alan fumed at the delay, but he knew it was necessary.
"Molly Sawyer's brother knows a boy who is a wireless operator in the Canadian Army and sends messages from trees!" "And if I have a little more practice I can try the troop exams next winter and get a certificate!" "Billy," broke in his mother, "run over to Mrs. Clark's and tell Alice to come home at once. Nora rang the bell for her but she did not hear."
He says that a lot of whipper-snappers from the public schools pass their exams, in the O.T.C., who are no more fit for officers than girls from a boarding-school. So, seeing you were willing to enlist as a private, he took you at your word. In fact, if Sapsworth had his way, he would have every officer in the Army rise from the ranks.
Come on, let's behave real wild, and go on over to the 'Teria and get us a couple egg sandwiches and sassprilly." Ramsey was willing. After the strain of the "mid-year Exams" in February, they lived a free-hearted life. They had settled into the ways of their world; they had grown used to it, and it had grown used to them; there was no longer any ignominy in being a freshman.
I read enough to pass my exams in school." "Then you've forgotten some things about American history, especially about spirit and equipment. Where was the equipment at Valley Forge? What about the troops under Washington that took the breastworks at Yorktown without a single round of powder just bayonets? What about the war of 1812, when we had no army and the English thought we had no navy?
"You listen to anything they tell you and you'll wind up with a book full of demerits! What in blazes are you doing here, anyway? You're supposed to be at physical exams right this minute!" The three boys began to shake visibly, not knowing whether to break ranks and run or wait until ordered. "Get out of here!" Connel roared. "You've got thirty seconds to make it.
"Well, I studied hard enough last month in college cramming for the final exams, so I could get within gunshot of enough sophomore credits, and I'm through; with study for a while. If I find a few live ones in this crowd, I guess we can enjoy ourselves without interfering with any of you grinds, if you must study," and Joe Carbrook went off in search of his live ones.
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