Word: beholding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while disbanding little by little the men on horseback. Instead, the horse cavalry are to dismount and step aboard machines, keeping their jobs and becoming mechanized cavalry. In the humble opinion of British technicians who today comprise the Tank Corps, it is going to be a rare sight to behold the horsy sons of generations of British cavalrymen becoming in a few months chauffeurs, mechanics and garagemen. "It takes 18 months to train a raw recruit to be a horseman," opined the technicians, "but who knows how long it will take to make anything else out of a horseman...
Statesmen of "eleven nations" gathered in the Locarno Room of the British Foreign Office last week for the opening of a new Naval Conference which all oracles have doomed to fail in attaining its objective: limitation of naval armament. Impressive to behold was the majority of seven nations (Great Britain, Canada, India, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and the Irish Free State) dwarfing physically the minority of four (U. S., Japan, France and Italy...
...they moved in solemn parade through Cleveland streets, lively with Eucharistic shields and yellow-&-white Papal colors, to the ugly red brick St. John's Cathedral. In the vestibule Bishop Schrembs censed the Cardinal Legate, presented him with a crucifix and aspersorium. A choir sang: Ecce Sacerdos Magnus ("Behold the great priest"). Protector noster aspice Deus ("Oh God, Our Protector, look upon us"), chanted the Bishop, while the Cardinal knelt at a faldstool. His brief liturgical reception over, Patrick Cardinal Hayes had nothing official to do until that evening when, in the Public Auditorium, he was publicly welcomed to Cleveland...
...Sports fan, I am naturally attracted to most articles dealing with sports, especially if the article is headed something like this: "1-to-1" [TIME, July 29]. And more especially, if that heading is found in your Religion column. It was only natural that my curiosity was aroused Behold my surprise when I discovered the name of my onetime prexy and admonisher! I refer to Dr. J. Oliver Buswell Jr., who with his colleague and fundamentalist friend, Dr. J. Gresham Machen, have been battling the Presbyterian Church, due to their affiliation with the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions...
...eastern coast of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands have helped split a President's Cabinet, drawn a steady stream of investigators and newshawks, kept themselves prominent in the nation's Press by as fantastic a comedy of political manners as the U. S. is ever likely to behold...