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Word: peeking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Particular attention will be devoted to a report and analysis of the "Peek-skill Incidents," and its challenge they presented to the concept of free assembly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ciardi, Others Will Analyze Civil Rights Issues Tonight | 10/25/1949 | See Source »

...Wildenstein Gallery in Paris steamed like a Turkish bath as some 1,700 visitors crowded in for a peek at the modern French Christmas pictures on the walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Christmas in June | 7/4/1949 | See Source »

Rehearsals are held regularly three evenings each week in the Hasty Pudding Clubhouse. The Kroks aren't quite sure how they manage to learn a new song; for awhile the Pudding barroom is pandemonium as members peek out their parts on an antique piano, cursing the over-enthusiastic arranger. Once the music is memorized, however, the rest is easy. Any Krok who has an idea or a gimmick speaks up, and the idea is tried. If the rest of the Kroks like it, it stays; if not, it is thrown out. In this way the final interpretation represents the combined...

Author: By E. PARKER Hayden jr., | Title: From the Pit | 4/23/1949 | See Source »

...players on the peek-preview team have a good chance of staying on all spring. They include Bill Rickenbacker, junior champion of New York City; Hugh Nawn, number-one man on the '51 freshman team; and Sam Seagar, who beat Princeton last year on a 12-foot putt after dark...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Golf Team, Minus a Team, Opens Its Schedule in Dixie | 3/24/1949 | See Source »

...reader-relationship with the pastor has, of course, been lost in the film version. The camera and not the Pastor now tells the story. Some of the subtlety is lost when in order to reveal the wife's knowledge of her husband's love for the girl, she must peek in through a window and see them together...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: Symphonie Pastorale | 1/6/1949 | See Source »

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