Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...naval censorship bureau where we occasionally transact business we were stopped short at the threshold by a typewritten notice that, one step ahead, we would be shot without warning. Quite confidentially, we spied through a glass window and found neither men nor materials strategically disposed to repel an invader. Another Pearl Harbor...
...this week Douglas MacArthur well knew that he was on the threshold of his deadliest test yet. Winston Churchill's announcement of Singapore's fall was not 24 hours old when a terse Philippine communiqué revealed...
...front for war, this member of the Crimson and Guardian boards calls upon liberal leadership to recognize that the unity so essential now, is at best a union of opposites against a common enemy, and to preserve its ideals for the time of peace-making. Completing its literary function, Threshold includes two competent, though scarcely startling, undergraduate short stories, a number of poems, and a concise book column prepared by Max Lerner...
...summary of possible contributions to Civilian Defense is donated by Jane Seaver, co-director of O. C. D.'s youth division, who also includes an estimate on the proper balance of educational and defense activities in war time. Accounts of activities of the major student groups are written for Threshold by members of the organizations concerned, while Joseph Lash edits a column of ISS Notes. Also of fundamental interest of students is the description of the "New Deal for C.O.'s" which tells of the fine work done by the Quakers and others in setting up work camps for religious...
...paucity of student articles on current affairs, for there is really but one in this issue, and additional interest might be gained by the substitution of a few articles on the order of the Guardian's for the magazine's stories and poems. These purely literary efforts seem beyond Threshold's scope, and they are not of a calibre to constitute significant contributions. But, in any case, Threshold remains readable and uncommonly constructive. Certainly it is a major contribution to student literary and political efforts...