Word: threshold
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...election save that of 1934 since the Civil War--resurgence of the President's loyal opposition. The Republican Party, which in the heyday of the New Deal held but a third of Congress and carried but two states in the fight for the presidency, is once again on the threshold of national power. Senate Republicans, while still a clear minority, have risen from complete impotence to a challenging position by picking up at least nine seats. The House, Democratic stronghold since the middle of the Hoover administration, shows a more startling doubt the Democrats appear to have retained a nominal...
With the seventh issue of its regular publication, International Student Service proves that the excellence of its recent copies was no momentary flash in the pan. Featuring articles by, for, and about college students in both hemispheres, "Threshold" has established itself the only collegiate monthly which achieves the purpose blazoned on its masthead. The magazine "seeks to express the widespread student conviction that this war be fought to establish a just world order." It succeeds in doing just that...
Christian Krediet, a former student at Leyden University, describes the reaction of Dutch colleges to the "pacification" imposed by the Nazis. This resistance does not stop at grumbling. Articles such as Krediet's and those on British and Russian students is past issues of "Threshold" are striking disproof of the theory that "decadence" and "softness" fully describe young men and women in the United Nations...
Periodicals dealing with subjects as ephemeral as "planning the post-war world" are apt to find themselves becalmed in the doldrums of utopian yearnings. "Threshold" has skillfully stayed afloat and on its course without jettisoning its credo...
This is still the central tenet of the group. Through bi-weekly public forums, with audience participation, large public meetings, its own speaker's bureal, and a connection with the International Student Service magazine Threshold, the Council will seek this fall to pose the problems to as many people as it possibly...