Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...believed on the wane, is exhibited once more. We need not deceive ourselves in believing that anything but a long struggle is before us. Barring the unexpected, we have a long road to victory. It is for us Americans, who, even after a year, are still upon the threshold of an appreciable participation, it is for us to redouble our efforts toward effectively aiding those heroic peoples who have so long borne the brunt of the battle, and who, even now, are sorely pressed for our assistance. America has for a year been in a dream, patting herself...
...discipline has been one of the gifts of inheritance. But the number of such families has been rapidly decreasing under modern social influences. The soldier must be taught obedience. That is the chief, though not the only, object of military training. The hardest problem this nation confronts on the threshold of war is not the recruiting of soldiers, but their training. It is useless to wail over neglected plans. We must face the situation that exists...
...their first ballots in their hands and step into the voting booths owe in return for the new privilege that hence-forth is to be theirs, all the serious thought that they can bring to bear upon the choice offered to them. Four years ago they were on the threshold of their majority. Today they have crossed it. Four years ago their interest in politics was academic. Today it is practical. Four years ago the ballot was a symbol. Today it is a weapon for good or ill. Fortunately for the destiny of the nation, youth is idealistic. Its eyes...
Today, should it become necessary to raise a large body of volunteers, under our present system of national defence, we would stand absolutely on the threshold of a gigantic enterprise for which the tools were but partially sharpened and ready for the work, and there would be an absolute lack of sufficient number of leaders for our companies and battalions of the large force which must be called for in the defence of the country...
Though you have but crossed the threshold, you are so much better prepared to carry on the task of manhood service than are those who have been less fortunate, less inspired, than yourselves; and your preparation will mean, in time, that you will count as greater factors in avoiding war, or lesser sufferers if it should come...