Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interest of political coexistence on Pennsylvania Avenue, President Eisenhower one day played host to the men in charge on Capitol Hill. Top Republicans and Democrats from both the Senate and the House spent two hours at the White House, heard the President outline a principle and make a promise: he believes that a bipartisan policy on foreign and military affairs is "essential"; he will inform and consult congressional leaders, including Democrats, before major decisions are made. The Senators and Representatives went back to the hill anticipating a genuine effort toward cooperation and bipartisanship. Said Georgia's old (76) Democrat...
...York School" is now in the making, as partisans claim, it grows in an artistic climate similar to that of Paris in the 1900s. As Paris was then, Manhattan is host to thousands upon thousands of young artists from near and far, fired with enthusiasm for themselves and for each other. Many scorn the art schools, and find their instruction and inspiration in a vast weekly banquet of important and exciting art shows. Their feverish eclecticism, their penchant for picking at random among the established schools and philosophies, lends the whole a chaotic effect. But the fact remains that good...
Washington, D.C. was host last week to two major religious conferences...
...Cleveland Museum of Art last week opened the finest survey of Chinese landscape painting ever assembled in America. Its 137 exhibits, borrowed from collections as far distant as Tokyo and Beirut, ranged from the 4th century to the 19th, and included dozens of masterpieces. Though Europe has produced a host of great landscapists, from Claude Lorrain to Paul Cézanne, the West's best could have learned much from the Chinese...
Princeton, the Eastern rugby League champions, will play host to the varsity team, league runners-up, today at Princeton. The Tigers were declared champions last weekend at the annual league gathering. The Crimson won six and lost four this year in placing second...