Word: host
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harlow Shapley, Director of the Harvard Observatory will play host tomorrow to nine Russian astronomers and technicians who are visiting the United States under the auspices of the State Department and the Russian Embassy...
...planning any voyage, the space navigator would have to allow for a host of "perturbations." Distant objects such as Neptune or comparatively small objects such as the moon might pull the ship off its course. A round-trip voyage would be ticklish. The ship would have to circle the objective planet and come back just in time to meet the earth. A miss would mean a plunge toward...
Already Zhdanov's committee has singled out for reprimand a host of writers, editors, film directors and play producers who have veered away from the party line onto primrose paths "where interests of the party were made victims of personal interests and general self-praise." The magazine Leningrad has been suspended, the Writers' Union given a thorough shakeup. A million-ruble movie, The Monogrammed Diary, was spirited away without a trace, after one viewing by the Cinema Ministry. Even the prestigious, semi-official Izvestia was scolded for printing the news straight, leaving the reader "to grope...
...Playing host to the youthful politicians in conjunction with the United States Student Assembly and the Boston Metropolitan Council of Colleges, the Liberal Union has prepared a Political Action Kit to be distributed at registration at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. The Kit will include a map of congressional districts, a simplified version of Massachusetts election laws, and a copy of Lowell Mellet's "Handbook of Politics...
...with no holes opened and no blocks thrown, but he found it difficult to drag the Colgate line more than five yards at a time. It wasn't until late in the game, when the Red Raiders found their ranks badly battered by a paucity of substitutes and a host of injuries who kept leaving the field in endless procession that the big breakaway came...