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...safely to circulate in the streets of this centre of Catholicism, they cannot but have noticed that the same cannot be said of the Vicar of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Father of all the Faithful, whom they were unable to approach and see except by crossing the threshold which He himself, so long as present conditions continue, neither can nor must cross...
...luck. When the turtle, having laid exactly 70 eggs, retired into the sea, it was bruited throughout Japan that the Crown Princess Nagako would be certain to give birth to a male heir. Then a pair of sacred cranes nested in a great pine tree almost at the imperial threshold, and this omen was thought to be so certain of fulfillment that the Japanese newspapers commenced to refer to the expected child...
...wait over until Lord Reading (now in London) again takes up the duties of Viceroy. Just what the result of Lord Reading's conversations with Lord Birkenhead, Secretary for India, have been, and precisely how it will affect British policy in India, are matters now on the threshold of the known. Whatever they are, they cannot fail to be highly important to the political welfare of the Empire of India...
Heaven opened. Arrowsmith had every facility, quiet, no interference. He had Gottlieb and one Terry Wickett, just such a lie-hunter as was Arrowsmith. He raced at his work, struck an unknown germ-eater, "Phage," and paused on the threshold of fame to establish scientific certainty. Came another blow. McGurk Institute, founded to cleanse a grubby name, could not risk loss of publicity. He was ordered to publish his find at once. He refused. A Frenchman found Phage, got the publicity. Arrowsmith was in bad odor at McGurk, even at McGurk, supposedly one of the three strongholds Science...
...Packard Jr. '20, instructor in public speaking at the University, will represent Dickens himself, who at the time was an alert, handsome young man of '29. Still on the threshold of his fame, he was already the idol of England and the envy of America. To do him honor, Boston's most distinguished citizens attended the dinner, as they will again next Saturday through their impersonators...