I'm satisfied if I get through.

I did hope to stand high enough to get into the cavalry, but now I think I'm going to be pleased if I get the doughboy's white trousers stripe." The "doughboy" is an infantryman.
"I think I'm going to find it all easy enough, now, after I once get my gait.

Thank goodness, we're past the daily math.

grind." "We'll all find plenty of math.

in its application to other studies," sighed Prescott.