Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Main hope for the host Columbia team is its Cuban-born sophomore sensation, Jose Iglesias, who breaks records as consistently as other good runners win races. So far this season, Iglesias has bettered the Dartmouth course record and the Columbia record for the Van Cortlandt course while winning all three Lion meets...
...some form of "big brother" system. Many problems which confront the foreign student are more easily discussed with a contemporary than with a member of the faculty. Moreover, an interested student could show the foreigner how to use the libraries, how to get around in Cambridge, and a host of other things for which a faculty member is less suitable...
...from Baltimore, went along. "I guess," he says ruefully, "I'm the only guy who ever went dove hunting in a grey flannel suit." On the second afternoon afield, "Spence" fired and missed one shot at a dove, gave up and contented himself with watching his sharpshooting host...
...member nations to specialize in the goods that it produces best. If tariffs were abolished, for example. Britain's camera manufacturers might well be swept away in a flood ot superior German-made Leicas and Rollei-flexes (now subject in Britain to 50% ad valorem duty), but the host of new amateur photographers that would spring up once German cameras were cheaply available to all Europeans would buy a great deal more of Britain's excellent film...
Abroad, the parade back to lithography was started by Picasso himself, who in 1945 became fascinated with the out-of-mode art form, was soon joined by a host of modern masters-Georges Braque, Fernand Leger, Joan Miro et al. In the U.S. lithography, which was revived as an art form under the WPA, also began its boom soon after World War II. Today in Manhattan The Contemporaries Graphic Art Center has in constant use most of the 90-odd lithographic stones it rounded up from old commercial houses Which since the turn of the century have shifted to zinc...