Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...corner of Alaska nearest Siberia was probably man's first threshold to the Western Hemisphere. So for years archeologists have dug there for a clue to America's prehistoric past. Until last year, all the finds were obviously Eskimo. Then Anthropologists Froelich G. Rainey of the University of Alaska and two collaborators struck the remains of a town, of inciedible size and mysterious culture. Last week in Natural History Professor Rainey, still somewhat amazed, described this lost Arctic city...
...country is about to approach the cross at the end of its rosary. I see on that cross not the old man, not the man who has chin whiskers, with stripes on his trousers. . . . I see through him a young man just pausing on the threshold of his life. I see through him, gibbeted there, a red-blooded youth, the youth of my country, the blood of my nation, the blood of civilization. I look through the old man, Uncle Sam, outstretched upon the gibbet, and I see his son not given an opportunity to be crucified but only given...
...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...