Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month Bishop Gallagher sailed from Manhattan on the Rex, for Rome, Vatican City and Castel Gandolfo to make the visit "to the threshold" of Mother Church required of all bishops every three to ten years. With him was his friend and close colleague, Bishop Joseph Schrembs of Cleveland. Ship newshawks discovered these big-city Bishops, immediately asked Detroit's what he thought of Father Coughlin's calling President Roosevelt a liar (TIME, July 27). Bishop Gallagher, whose countenance, as that of the Archangel Michael, adorns the political priest's Charity Crucifixion Tower near Detroit, replied...
Said Mr. Kennedy ominously: "It would be little short of criminal, if, on the threshold of prosperity for the industry, this opportunity to eliminate waste and substitute profits were to be passed by without action. It might subsequently be difficult to explain such inaction to litigious stockholders or to enquiring Congressional committees...
...perhaps on the threshold of a new art of the word...
Beagle, told what a young scientist thinks about on the threshold of his career. But Huxley's diary, unlike Darwin's, was not preoccupied by scientific fact nor visited by intimations of a great theory. A young medico of wide interests, with a keen eye and a susceptible heart, he wrote surprisingly little about his first big research...
...large apartment building on Connecticut Avenue. Unless he borrows his wife's 1931 La Salle, he strolls to his office about 11 o'clock each morning. In the long corridors of the Senate Office Building his door can be identified by several Poland Water bottles on its threshold. He drinks four quarts of this a day, no tea, no coffee and, for the last 50 years, no alcohol. His office is staffed entirely with Idahoans. He spends an hour at his correspondence before going to the Senate floor at noon. At 6 p. m. he usually busses home...