Word: beholding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could be bolted together, with the end foundations resting directly on the sidewalks, some fine morning about 2A.M. Next day, behold, the nerve wracking delay of waiting to cross would have been solved and, by their example and public spirit, the gentleman of Harvard would have called attention to a great problem in our midst...
Thousands of Britons lined the shores of Plymouth Sound early one morning last week to behold the cruiser Exeter, leading lady of the Battle of Punta del Este, steaming home under her own power after being patched up in the Falkland Islands. Her funnels riddled, her sides repainted but still scarred by shells from the Admiral Graf Spee, she tied up at Devonport alongside her comrade in action, the Ajax (third participant, the Achilles, is still on duty off South America). Aboard stepped Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon and First Lord...
...Colonel Charlie") Apted, Harvard's head "Yard cop." Charlie dearly loves to march in this parade: He also loves Harvard. Last week was one of mixed emotions for Charlie Apted. In Harvard's paneled old Memorial Hall 600 Harvardmen dined & wined him, the Harvard Glee Club sang Behold the Lord High Executioner and photographers' lenses blinked again & again as Colonel Apted announced that he would retire in July, after 38 years as a campus character...