Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Threshold. In Shanghai, on U.S. Navy Day, Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, whose Seventh Fleet is transporting Central Government forces to Manchuria, declared...
Henry Ford hailed his 82nd birthday with his customary optimism and plug for unhampered private enterprise. The entire world, said he, is "on the threshold of a prosperity and standard of living that never before was considered possible." He admitted that "there are problems, human, economic, and political, that must be solved...
...from threatening American agriculture, industry and labor, the Trade Agreements Act is an important element in promoting the postwar prosperity of all of them. It is one of the indispensable steps in bringing about a world order in which cooperation among nations replaces strife. We . . . are on the threshold of the first decisions that will determine whether we shall direct our efforts towards that goal...
...person of their President, Franklin Roosevelt, they stand on the threshold of that world today...
...excited as a man standing on the threshold of a new world, Dr. Gesell thinks his pioneering study may lead to explanations of some of the "fundamental riddles of science"; e.g., the nature of life, the meaning of genius, etc. Says he, quoting Samuel Coleridge: "This history of a man for the nine months preceding his birth would probably be far more interesting and contain events of far greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow...