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...dormitories is on the street level, but thirty feet away, on the other side of the building, the bottom of a door to an entry is three feet below the ground. This uneveness will be corrected throughout, with enough extra grading to allow for a step and threshold to each entry. Where the doors are above the ground will be filled in to allow for an equal number of steps. These operations will allow for daylight in the basements, which now are in places quite under ground...
...glad I am one. ... I think the day is not far distant when there will be little or no excuse for unemployment, when the reward for industry, inventive genius and political wisdom will far surpass anything heretofore known in the history of the human race. We are on the threshold of a new world and the utilization of natural forces that were unthought of and undreamed of a few years ago. A new epoch of man, a conquest of nature, is just beginning...
...world growing yearly more democratic, on the threshold of a great naval disarmament conference, new editions of the intransigeant annuals of blue bloods and battleships came last week from their respective publishers: the squat red Almanach de Gotha and long blue Jane's Fighting Ships. In recent years, editing the 167-year-old Almanach de Gotha, "genealogical, diplomatic and statistical annual," has been no mean task. Bound by tradition to list only the members of regal, princely and ducal families, the genteel editors have been obliged by a shortage of European aristocracy to fill their sedate pages with such...
With the War came Mr. Guggenheim's interest in aviation. In March 1917, while taking a holiday in Florida, he saw the U. S. was at the War's threshold. He bought a Curtiss flying boat, took private instruction, and, when War was declared, received a lieutenant's commission in the naval air forces. Sent overseas, he organized naval air stations in England, France, Italy, won from the Italian government the Brevetto Superiore. After the War came another copper interlude, also the development of Chilean nitrate and Bolivian tin. But he was now engaged in the financial...
...half-million eyes watched the centre portal of St. Peter's, symbolic on this occasion of the Vatican's boundary. When the Pope crossed that threshold he would end Papai imprisonment, voluntarily undergone for 59 years...