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...think of his own community, for as each community becomes more integrated, the need for the knowledge gained by its youth increases. With the age of social well-being on the horizon, educators must soon recognize the problem of misused education, and instead of leaving the student on the threshold of life to grope for his niche, they should point out the advantages of applying his training in his own community. It is time for a new Horace Greeley to rise and shout, Go Home, Young...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GO HOME, YOUNG MAN | 6/22/1938 | See Source »

...three, a never-ending supply of clean white gloves. A clean white glove is the cachet of respectability in the Four Hundred. With a pair of clean white gloves, it's even possible to get past Psychic, the Perfect Butler who guards the threshold of J. P. Morgan on Murray Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Society Reporter | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...Vivacious Lady needs only a snipping-out of sophomoric circumstances here & there to bring it to the top comedy class. Most ribald sequence, primed by Director George Stevens to go off in the Hays office's face, comes when Bridegroom Stewart tries to carry Bride Rogers over the threshold of a Pullman drawing room, to find it already occupied by a truculent, long wed pair of grumps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 16, 1938 | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...that I like American?" He answered his question by saying that he believed all this did not have to be. "Poverty isn't a necessity as it was 2000 years ago when there wasn't enough to go around. Today we can produce enough for all. On the threshold of plenty, we seem worse off than before," because American lacks consumers. The solution he felt, was not in "building monuments...

Author: By Alexander R. James jr., (SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Hicks Tells Why He Likes American At Union College | 4/22/1938 | See Source »

...animal is placed inside the cylinder, which is then turned slowly by hand. If the animal makes eye or head movements following the rotation, it is assumed that it can see the stripes. Their width is progressively diminished until the animal stops turning its eyes- thus showing that its threshold of vision has been reached. For sharp-eyed creatures which can easily follow the the 1/16th inch stripes, a further refinement is achieved by using slender threads, the finest of which were especially woven for Warkentin's experiments. The cylinder technique was used in Germany 15 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Animal Vision | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

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