Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Entry parties take place early in the fall term, with each resident tutor acting as host to the undergraduates in his entry. In some instances, inter-entry athletic rivalries have sprung up with individual tutors as active participants, further solidifying the tutor-student relationship and abetting the balance between student and athlete...
Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower, cleaning up their social obligations for the season, played host at a reception for some 1,000 Government officials and Congressmen. Milling through the East Room and the State Dining Room, the guests munched cookies, sipped lemon-and-raspberry spikeless punch, took note of the resplendence of satin, lace and jewels, viz.: Ohio's Mrs. Frank Lausche, in eggshell taffeta; Kentucky's Mrs. Sherman Cooper in black silk; Tennessee's Mrs. Estes Kefauver in two shades of green chiffon. Blazing the way toward a new style was Mrs. Randolph Burgess, wife...
...their best energies to the college-bound few. While such subjects as Latin and Greek began to retreat, the N.E.A. called for more and more vocational and physical education. Since World War II, it has backed the movement for safety education, driving lessons, audio-visual aids, and the whole host of courses (how to get along with the family, to buy clothes, to behave on a date) that go under the name "life adjustment...
Only a specialist reader will care to follow the C.P. through its early history of heresy, splinter groups and purges. From a host of names, Historian Draper has underlined one that serves to tell the story of all. Louis C. Fraina was the "one man who led the way to a pro-Communist Left Wing," and he was once so important, says Draper sarcastically, that William Z. Foster in a 600-page History of the Communist Party of the United States mentions him not once...
...conservative prediction of the meet results shows the host, Big Red, winning by seven points, 52 to 45. Last year, the varsity beat Cornell 39 to 36 with Dartmouth third with 31 points...