Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...this may seem elementary, but when Hooton steps over the threshold to humanity he finds that tender-minded idealists suddenly throw the biological basis of behavior right out the window. They cannot deny that bodily differences are inherited, so they simply put body and mind in separate compartments. "This," says Hooton, "is the human declaration of independence. It has produced a social schizophrenia which is making a madhouse of civilization...
Hooton declares that inherited temperamental differences in animals are admitted by most scientists, but that when they stop over the threshold to humanity, these tender-minded, idealists suddenly throw the biological basis of behavior right out of the window...
With athletics forced indoors for the winter season, squash, the sport in which Harvard holds the highest intercollegiate and national rankings of any college, is at the threshold of an active season...
Some patients showed great improvement after one treatment, others after two or three. Dr. Raab believed that he was on the threshold of an important discovery. At that point (1938) Hitler swallowed Austria, and Dr. Raab left immediately, "by preference." He came to the U. S., where he had once been a Rockefellow, settled at the University of Vermont...
...Oscar Bach began working with less expensive iron & steel alloys, he found to his surprise that his coloring process immensely improved corrosion resistance. Last week the "American Cellini's" researches led him to the threshold of National Defense. He announced a process for Bachiting cheap black plate iron (3? per lb.), which, he claims, makes the metal a substitute for tin plate. Tin is important in tin cans because it resists corrosion by food acids. Bachited iron, said Bach, had a corrosion resistance against "most corrosive agents" higher than that of tin plate...