Word: beholds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Behold there shall arise after them seven years of famine" were the words of Joseph to the Pharaoh back in the land of Egypt. On the greensward of the Stadium today the Crimson jerseyed Har-low-vards are out to put an end to the seven lean years, the seven years of famine which Harvard football has suffered at the hands of the Big Green from Hanover...
...speaks of Harvard as the most articulate pro-Ally university. Then he attempts to discover who controls Harvard in order to find a rational basis for the interventionist speeches of its President and some of its professors. Lo and behold, the House of Morgan becomes the major bogeyman because of its supposed control of the Corporation and Overseers since the turn of the century. Granted this conclusion, which cannot be factually substantiated, then President Conant must whip up moral enthusiasm behind intervention in order to protect foreign investments and thus maintain or increase endowments. Harvard and other universities...
...Helder and other centres were threatened likewise. . . . Our Air Force was too weak. . . . We were left to ourselves and so I had to make a grave decision which was a very difficult one for me to lay down our arms. ... All I can say is, trust in the future, behold your traditions. Long live Her Majesty the Queen! Long live the Fatherland...
Again the grumble of discontented stomachs causes some headache to trouble-ridden John Harvard. Again his unruly crowd of pupils clamors for richer foods terrestrial, as if the fare of Learning were not enough to still the scholar's appetite. The battle-cry of Harvard's venerable past--"behold, the butter stinketh!"--again resounds in academic ears, but in a modern version that may well produce streamlined results...
Wonderful to behold, tremendous to hear is a military band-as every schoolboy knows to his marrow. Oldest and most famed of all such U. S. bands is the U. S. Marine Band. Founded in 1798, the "Marines" have played at every inauguration since Thomas Jefferson's day. Glorious in scarlet uniforms, the band plays Hail to the Chief every time the President appears at a big state shindig...