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...perhaps on the threshold of a new art of the word...
Beagle, told what a young scientist thinks about on the threshold of his career. But Huxley's diary, unlike Darwin's, was not preoccupied by scientific fact nor visited by intimations of a great theory. A young medico of wide interests, with a keen eye and a susceptible heart, he wrote surprisingly little about his first big research...
...large apartment building on Connecticut Avenue. Unless he borrows his wife's 1931 La Salle, he strolls to his office about 11 o'clock each morning. In the long corridors of the Senate Office Building his door can be identified by several Poland Water bottles on its threshold. He drinks four quarts of this a day, no tea, no coffee and, for the last 50 years, no alcohol. His office is staffed entirely with Idahoans. He spends an hour at his correspondence before going to the Senate floor at noon. At 6 p. m. he usually busses home...
...Lewis, wife of his close friend and almost like a mother to him. But when Lewis died Ben discovered a more than filial affection for Mary Anne, and it took him less than the traditional widow's year to overcome her scruples. Author Thane leaves him on the threshold of his career and on her doorstep, with the Premiership in the future and Mary Anne's answer just inside the door...
...while the past is being gratefully celebrated, it is obvious from the vigorous, forward-looking plans of the president that he is thinking of what future such a distinguished past should have in the conjugation of its life. The initial steps beyond the threshold of the fourth century are definitely planned: first, the creation of a number of new professorships to be known as university professorships with "roving commissions" among the departments, but "without portfolios" and free from departmental restrictions and administrative duties, yet free to carry on investigation in any laboratory in the university; and second, the establishment...