Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...host of shiny IBM machines awaits the University's beleaguered statisticians...
...Cornell had taken up Singer's cause, but he added that no substantial number of gifts had been received from Cambridge in the past week. Checks have been sent from Harvard in the past, he said, as well as from the University of Pennsylvania, Johns Hopkins, and "a host of other places...
...puppy's head kept its own personality. Though handicapped by having almost no body of its own, it was as playful as any other puppy. It growled and snarled with mock fierceness or licked the hand that caressed it. The host-dog was bored by all this, but soon became reconciled to the unaccountable puppy that had sprouted out of its neck. When it got thirsty, the puppy got thirsty and lapped milk eagerly. When the laboratory grew hot, both host-dog and puppy put out their tongues and panted to cool off. After six days of life together...
...physicians hand out too many barbiturates? Doctors prescribe from 3 Dillon to 4 billion doses each year and there are estimated to be at least 50,000 confirmed addicts besides a host of habitual users. Two Washington, B.C. researchers polled colleagues, reported in Postgraduate Medicine: 1) most uses of barbiturates are necessary or at least legitimate; 2) unjustified prescriptions (tor routine sedation or mild insomnia) do not occur often enough to justify new control legislation; 3) most doctors are eager to get rid of barbiturates, "are waiting only for the advancement of medical knowledge and the growth of psychiatric facilities...
...weak spots in 1955 there would be a host of counterbalancing strengths in the economy, as there had been in 1954. The economy had grown so fast that the debt, like defense spending, was not the burden it once was. In 1945, for instance, the debt equaled 129% of the gross national product; now it was only 76% of the G.N.P. And the economy was still growing not only in productive capacity but in the number of consumers...