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...repair the damage that has been done--the horse is long gone from the barn. But it is not too late to insure that such a situation never again arises at Harvard. Whether it is salutary or not, football at Harvard, as throughout the nation, stands on the threshold of its greatest era. But if football at Harvard is to be big time, then the H.A.A. must sweep off the cobwebs and emerge from the nineteenth century...
...safer range. Airplanes that could accelerate (and decelerate) fast enough to pass safely through the enormous supersonic room would have to behave like bullets or shells, leaving harmlessly behind them the sound waves their motion creates. But no one knows at present how to get over even the perilous threshold without suffering disaster...
...passed the dreaded limit of "compressibility" when the air streams pass the wing or control surfaces at the speed of sound (TIME, Sept. 23). A "standing sound wave" may have formed, clung like a yammering banshee, and torn the plane to shreds. Perhaps Captain De Havilland crossed that sonic threshold only to discover, in Hamlet's soaring words...
...teau near Biarritz which he had bought with tips. The world had changed; even Paris had changed. And one must be so careful these days; Maxim's manager, uncertain of volatile Parisian reactions, had drawn tight the forbidding metal blinds of the war years. Over the threshold of pleasure, a single electric bulb, flickering with Paris' spastic electric current, lighted strayed revelers through the night...
Said one expert: "Airline management is _ faced with the critical test of its ability to organize. The history of every fast-developing large industry reflects a heavy turnover of management. The airlines are now on the threshold of this period...