Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announced this week: Cecil H. Green (M.I.T. '23), vice president of Texas Instruments, Inc., a Dallas electronics firm, and board chairman of Geophysical Service, Inc., a subsidiary outfit that does seismographic exploration in 21 countries. Said M.I.T.'s President Julius Stratton: "The earth sciences stand on the threshold of great advances, as did electronics ten years ago. The gift . . . will enable geologists, chemists, physicists, meteorologists and oceanographers to work side by side in a basic and applied scientific program which will have, I am certain, the greatest impact on our economy and society...
...trip to India"), again assisted in Gov 1 and Gov 106, and this spring was named head tutor in Riesman's Soc Sci 136. And now, along with Master Bullitt, tutors named and unnamed, eighty hand-picked sophomores and juniors and many many uninterviewed freshman, he stands on the threshold of Quincy. Let's hope the threshold holds...
...believe the country is prepared--that the people are prepared--that they know we are on the threshold possibly of grave disaster," Dodd told the Senate. He questioned not so much the adequacy of U.S. armed forces as what he termed the unpreparedness of the people for possible conflict...
...suddenly heard a sound across the water like "dynamite going off." They flipped the wheelhouse searchlight on, saw, 800 ft. off the tug's bow, the shattered hulk of Flagship New York settling crazily into 20 ft. of water a mile short of the runway's green threshold lights. The tug cut loose two barges it was towing, churned towards the twisted wreckage, flashed a call for help to the Coast Guard. Nickerson gave the eight-man crew one order: "Forget the bodies. Haul in the live ones...
Novelist John Updike's literary voice is low and gentle; he chooses a quiet theme and carefully understates it to the threshold of inaudibility. In his first novel, The Poorhouse Fair, he picks the bones of some old people's lives in whispers. Yet Poorhouse is less concerned with old age than with the clash between the bloodless ideal of social perfectibility and the pungent humanity of the old Adam. On this subject Author Updike's whispers are sibilant with meaning...