Word: host
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yesterday the team travelled down to Camp Edwards, in Falmouth, to oppose the Army. Saturday they play host to Holy Cross on Soldiers Field; the Crusaders have beaten Yale, 10 to 0, and Brown, 10 to 1, and Coach Stahl will...
Washington, D.C.'s stiff, white marble National Gallery this week blazed with Army flags. The museum was host to a Special Services Division's show of 214 soldier art works chosen from some 9,000 specimens sent in from nine service commands. The result was a vast roll call of brave artistic tries-much that was derivative, much that was halting, some that was more than competent. Most of the works were produced in scant off-hours...
...Just a poor Lithuanian peasant girl from Marienburg," answered his cautious host, bumbling 60-year-old Marshal Boris Sheremetiev, the third most powerful man in Peter the Great's Russia. "Does housework for Mme. Sheremetiev. I drew her when we divided the people...
...power did not do what many an American thinks it did. It did not destroy German industry nor the potentials for a third world war. Airmen's explanation: "selective bombing" was never intended to destroy all industry. In any event, the host of Allied experts is gradually realizing that 70% of German industry, perhaps more, escaped the bombs...
...coal; the railroads must be rebuilt. This means that steel plants must open. A host of smaller industries must start up. Where will it stop? No one yet knows. The danger is that it will never stop...