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That we met too late, after I had crossed my husband's threshold...
Poets may sing of the beauties of Harvard Yard, romanticists may see only the ideal that lies therein, but Freshmen asked to write descriptions of the Yard in Spring will still stumble on the threshold of hypocrisy...
...Grace Morrison Poole, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the President confidently wrote: "We enter upon the new year with a realization that we have crossed the threshold of a new era. We have the opportunity of improving conditions and making our country a better home, materially and spiritually, for more than 120,000,000 people...
...approved his enterprise, Congressman Dickstein replied: "We are going ahead with the inquiry. You can draw your own conclusions. . . . The revelations will shock the nation, as did those of the Captain Boy-Ed and von Bernstorff episodes in the days when Fate was pushing our country to the threshold of World War participation...
...years of age, on the threshold of the exit from life, ready to meet my Maker," Henry Martyn Leland was still fighting Henry Ford. When the founder of both Cadillac Motor Car Co. and Lincoln Motor Co. died the next year his cause passed into the hands of his son and his grandson. For a decade this "Grand Old Man of the automobile industry," who had made rifles in the U. S. Springfield Arsenal during the Civil War and Liberty motors in his Lincoln plant during the World War, tried to make Henry Ford acknowledge an obligation not to himself...