Word: host
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...group of men fidgeted on a platform in Waterloo Station, London. Trains puffed in, carriage doors flew open, a host of grinning Americans and Canadians flocked out. The fidgeters, English reception committee of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, sprang into action, shook hands, in every direction, loaded the grinners into a fleet of taxis, chugged off with them toward the Strand to the 20th Annual International Advertising Convention...
...Wimbledon. At his annual lawn-tennis party, John Bull of Wimbledon was, as usual, a polite host. He stood sedately aside and let his unruly guests scramble for the goodies, saving only two for himself...
Into the great circus hall at midday? sweltering June midday ? poured the delegates. They sweltered and chattered and shouted while the band made merry. The performers began to come; George E. Brennan, boss of Illinois; Thomas Taggart, boss of Indiana; a host of McAdoo leaders ? Love of Texas, Long of Missouri, Herring of Iowa; Senator Copeland of New York, came in and went around shaking hands with every delegation...
...Harvard's board of baseball strategy is to prevent Yale from making a clean sweep of the year's major sport contests, and for that reason today's game with Tufts is looked upon almost wholly as the last step in the preparation for Yale. Tufts will be the host of the Crimson nine at Tufts Oval at 3 o'clock...
...results of the Olympic trials. The breaking of five world's records in a single afternoon, with an American record and an Olympic record thrown in for good measure, is probably unprecedented; and the University, with even more justice than Boston, may congratulate itself on its enviable part as host to such a gathering of celebrities, as well as the proud possessor of several...