Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time was when a payroll amounted to no more than what a company paid its workers at the end of the week. Today, what with pensions, social security, insurance premiums and a host of other fringe benefits, there is a big payroll cost piled on top of the wages themselves...
...plays host to three pixilated old men who have lost their lodgings. Busy as the dwarfs in Snow White, they ply him with mystic mumbo jumbo and a brand of higher Dianetics called "time alive." by which Ravenstreet can relive key events in his past with the added wisdom of hindsight. Under the influence of time alive, Ravenstreet realizes that he should have married an adoring mistress rather than the boss's daughter, and that Mervil and associates are evil men. anxious to clamp a power-mad elite on drug-happy masses (the theories of the '30s reappear...
Prior to the match, Coach Jack Barnaby announced that Gravem, Harris, and Steve Gottlieb, the freshman captain, would join three Yale players in the biennial Prentice Cup competition against Oxford and Cambridge. The English teams, which won the trophy in the United States in 1952, will play host to this spring's matches...
...extensive past contributions of foreign scientists, and the present isolation is mirrored in the steady decline here of international, scientific conferences. The International Congresses of Biochemistry, Psychology, and Genetics, have all refused to meet in the United States this year--although it is this country's turn to play host. The Congress of Geneticists, meeting in Italy last year, adopted a resolution which reads as though intended for a totalitarian nation, but was meant for this country...
...want friends he certainly did not get them. Fisher says, "I can't remember anyone who was disliked by so many people. He had a host of enemies. But Schine never lot on that this bothered him. He never seemed very concerned about anything that went on at Harvard. His interests were elsewhere and he never even spent much time in Adams...