Word: host
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lower end of the intestine is of a size that requires emptying every six hours, but by habit we retain its contents 24 hours. The results, as I say, are ulcers and cancer. The products of intestinal toxemia are absorbed and we have filthy blood, and there are a host of resulting ailments. This poisoning causes enlargement of the pituitary gland, the thyroid gland, and, I think, the adrenals. The organs degenerate...
...looks well on paper--on the paper of the college dailies it looks, especially well. Yet even so it is possible that we are reckoning without our host. For better or worse there is, in point of fact, something more to American college football than the enjoyment of sports-manship. Undergraduates really believe that to be strong and manly--and successful--in athletics reflects credit on their alma mater and that the credit of their alma mater is somehow worth while. As nowhere else in modern life, they learn obedience, discipline, fortitude. Among the "moral substitutes for war" demanded...
That the day's work was of no fluke origin it might be noted that the next week the University of Pittsburgh sadly humiliated Old Penn, conquerors of Yale and of a host of other football aggregations of more than passing merit...
...theatergoer can forgive the new Jewett company for the similar happening on the opening night of the new theatre. The first performance of "The Rivals" was a state occasion, and dedicatory speeches and a host of acknowledgements were not only in order, but an indispensable sine qua non to mark the event. But to present the second offering in their repertoire, sans the delay of congratulatory speeches, to the tune of a performance well over three and a half hours long is as imprudent as it is inexcusable...
...Last week he welcomed to the sumptuous mayoral board a company of diners plenipotent and distinguished. Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain, and the German Ambassador to Britain, Herr Doktor Sthamer, sat next each other and exchanged friendly pledges in a great loving cup. Premier Baldwin, Admiral Lord Beatty, a host of foreign Ambassadors, and many notable Britons from every walk of life, completed the gathering. As usual the banqueters were regaled with speeches of considerable political significance. Since the Foreign Secretary spoke publicly for the first time since his return from Locarno (TIME, Nov. 2), he was well harkened...