Word: host
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Present were the Duke of York, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Premier, a host of England's great ones...
...their annual pilgrimage over the Sierra Parima to the Orinoco Basin in Venezuela. But these placid cannibals were most likely at a loss, last winter, when they pricked their ears to the distant humming of a billion ants on the move, a humming that became the drone of a host of baritone bees, of one giant bee, of a visible giant bee with a tail like a scorpion, of the first airplane those cannibals had ever seen. Down from heaven fell red parachutes at their feet -bales of beads, knives, gewgaws. "Glug," mused the cannibals, "glug, glug." The chances were...
Germs' Breath. How, what, do bacteria breathe? The animal organism that causes sleeping sickness needs oxygen but died of an overdose. The plant organism that causes tuberculosis also needs oxygen, died when deprived of it. The latter was thought to grow slowly in its human host not because it gets no oxygen, but because it gets very little.-Drs. F. G. Novy and M. H. Soule, University of Michigan...
During the past week Princeton has played the gracious role of host to the Harvard crews. Harvard appreciates the kind and hospitable entertainment extended to its oarsmen and takes this opportunity to express its gratitude to Princeton. Courtesies of this nature do much to strengthen intercollegiate bonds, and in these days when petty jealousies and rivalries are often magnified to formidable proportions, only cordial relations can lay the ghost of extra-mural comment. Princeton's hospitality is but another expression of that unbroken friendship which has long characterized the pleasant relations of the two universities...
...this brilliant Jew was chosen from among a host of hereditary British statesmen to represent the Emperor in India, the highest and most responsible administrative position which the Crown has to offer. During his term of office, he has had to contend with Gandhi, Das and other nationalist leaders; and, in spite of being entirely out of sympathy with the Montague-Chelmsford reforms (progressive Indianization and autonomy within the Commonwealth), he has proved himself a patient, able and sagacious pilot in one of the most threatening storms that have beset the ship of India...