Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House one day last week watched the dandruff-flecked coat collar of Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins as its owner hurried up a corridor to keep an appointment with President Roosevelt. Later the bowlegs of Hugh Samuel Johnson carried that old-time cavalryman over the Presidential threshold. And when General Johnson reappeared, it was to announce without much pleasure that he had just been made Federal Works Progress Administrator for New York City. Boarding a plane with his faithful secretary Frances ("Robbie") Robinson, the General therewith flew off to New York...
...milk is still a bargain in food values. ... It is difficult to estimate how many persons in this country are so poor they are unable to purchase the food necessary to keep them in health. . . . But something like 20,000,000 American people are living near or below the threshold of nutritive safety. This condition, if continued, will surely affect the health of the race. The income of these people must be raised or the price of food lowered...
Began the vice-Regal voice from the Throne, first in English, then in French: "Honorable Members of the Senate: "Members of the House of Commons: "I welcome you at a time when our country stands upon the threshold of a new era of Prosperity. It will be for you to throw wide the door! During the past year the grip of hard times has been broken...
...more especially if in that process John Harvard's bequest gave to the College, within a month or two of its opening session, its first substantial endowment, then he is clearly entitled to be considered a founder. The General Court evidently felt that such a gift, at the very threshold of the College's existence and going further than any other contribution made up to that time to ensure its permanence, made him the founder in the sense of one who set up a foundation. They acknowledged the fact by bestowing his name on the College. This was almost...
Stealthily, after an arduous ascent, he stood confident before the offending door ready to bring the swift justice of the law to the unsuspecting voice within Flinging open the door he stood mightily on the threshold and gazed bewildered upon the scene that lay unfolded... There before him stood a stocky and amazed youth interrupted in the midst of rehearsing his part for a female role in the Kirkland House play. Chagrined and defeated the guardian of the fair name of Harvard sought the protective cover of the night...