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Word: beholding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everyone agrees that the Scarlet were the smartest, best-coached outfit to visit the Stadium since 1942, and from a purely esthetic point of view, their alert backing-up and silk-smooth offensive machinations were delightful to behold. And throughout the nation this year, past season records, the size of undergraduate bodies, and batteries of press agents don't mean too much, for only eleven men are allowed to play at one time...

Author: By Donald M. Blinken, | Title: Psychologists Move in as Rutgers, Princeton Upsets Baffle Observers | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

First evidence of the rapid Varsity improvement predicted by Dick Harlow after the Princeton game was shown yesterday as the "A" team backs ran through spinners and reverses with a snap and precision that was wonderful to behold, and a deception that baffled even the most astute observers on the sidelines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Backs Show New Snap, Deception In signal Drills | 10/16/1946 | See Source »

...With rare insight into the psychology of hunger, the Union management has arranged for trays to be dumped under the noses of incoming lines, and the gradually growing piles of half-consumed food made slushy by left-over gravy is a pre-meal feature wondrous to behold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Appetizer | 10/15/1946 | See Source »

...behold Germany dyed in blood, France utterly ruined. . . . While I contemplate the storm, I am almost ashamed of my own tranquillity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWITZERLAND: Shadows on the Alps | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...produced curious alliances and strange turnabouts. At one point Alben Barkley remarked: "To see the Senator from Florida [Pepper] coming to the rescue of the American businessman and the Senator from Colorado [conservative Republican Eugene Donald Millikin] coming to the rescue of the American workingman is something wonderful to behold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Over the Barrel | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

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