Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since the Nazis stood on Moscow's threshold last October had the city been so preoccupied with war. At newspaper kiosks Muscovites waited for each edition, pored over the communiques without moving on. Loudspeakers blared news from street corners. In nearly every home a map was spread out each evening while housewives explained communiques to their children. Everyone knew that these were the war's gravest hours. People talked little about war or peace aims beyond beating the Nazis...
...poured military dispatches that told him his foe was all but whipped in the northern Caucasus, that Timoshenko's main strength was apparently concentrated in a vast arc before Stalingrad, that German positions along the Don at Voronezh were safe for the moment. Bock might be on the threshold of an even greater victory. He could look with satisfaction on what his Panzers, shock troops, snub-nosed caterpillar guns and rank-on-rank of efficient infantrymen had achieved. He could look with hawk-eyed anticipation at the mighty Volga, throbbing artery that pumps the heart of Russia, almost within...
...August issue of Threshold has finally laid to rest fears that the magazine would lose its commonsense student appeal with its announced switch to post war problems. The war has closed, to the student publications, so many channel for criticism and three is such a dearth of information and expert analyses on vital issues of the day, that it would not have been surprising if Threshold had lost itself in a maze of nebulous speculation. In stead it has devoted itself to a series of contemporary surveys on subjects close to student thoughts. It can not help but bring...
...mixed emotions of the college trained enlisted man. In this article, as throughout the magazine, the approach is that of the student, by the student, and for the student. It is in maintaining the approach in the face of temptation to lose themselves in broader issues, that Threshold is making its greatest contribution. This is a type of clear thought for which college students may be grateful...
Having absorbed the Harvard Post-War journalistic ambitions in the form of a "broadened editorial program," the flesh-colored June "Threshold" is largely restricted to discussions of how to win the peace. But in playing up its political side the I. S. S. organ has not entirely lost its former spirit. Continuing "to foster non-political student writing," the editors have suffered obscure poetry and bad cartoons to remain in the new environment, and weighty deliberations are illustrated with bedraggled rag-dolls that could have been drawn by Munroe Leaf's kid sister...