Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wait over until Lord Reading (now in London) again takes up the duties of Viceroy. Just what the result of Lord Reading's conversations with Lord Birkenhead, Secretary for India, have been, and precisely how it will affect British policy in India, are matters now on the threshold of the known. Whatever they are, they cannot fail to be highly important to the political welfare of the Empire of India...
Heaven opened. Arrowsmith had every facility, quiet, no interference. He had Gottlieb and one Terry Wickett, just such a lie-hunter as was Arrowsmith. He raced at his work, struck an unknown germ-eater, "Phage," and paused on the threshold of fame to establish scientific certainty. Came another blow. McGurk Institute, founded to cleanse a grubby name, could not risk loss of publicity. He was ordered to publish his find at once. He refused. A Frenchman found Phage, got the publicity. Arrowsmith was in bad odor at McGurk, even at McGurk, supposedly one of the three strongholds Science...
...Packard Jr. '20, instructor in public speaking at the University, will represent Dickens himself, who at the time was an alert, handsome young man of '29. Still on the threshold of his fame, he was already the idol of England and the envy of America. To do him honor, Boston's most distinguished citizens attended the dinner, as they will again next Saturday through their impersonators...
...interest. A Wall Street rumor widely believed, is to the effect that there is a secret entrance into the Morgan offices through the Mills Building, of great usefulness in balking overcurious reporters. Partners in the firm, and famed customers, too, are said to have been seen leaving the Morgan threshold , but not entering it, and vice versa. When the present Morgan building , was erected, the firm was for a time housed in the Mills Building. Wall Street will spare some hours from speculating in securities, to speculate on the truth of this "secret passage story" when the Mills Building comes...
...should stagger across the threshold of the Near East Orphanage at Alexandropol in the Soviet Republic of Armenia but Big Bill Haywood, Communist exile, wanted by the U. S. as an inmate of Leaven worth. He begged food, clothes, overnight shelter...