Word: hosting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With an eye on the estimated $235 million to be spent this year by U.S. tourists in Canada, the Dominion was determined to be the good host. For Courtesy to Tourists Week, the Junior Chamber of Commerce put on its best smile. In Ontario, the Department of Travel and Publicity got down to fundamentals. It bought 1,000 copies of a cookbook to pass out free to tourist camps and small hotels, "to raise the standard of food served as an added attraction to tourists...
...there was one other big reason. It was the basic political fact that a state's position in the national political scene is often determined by a purely internal political scrap. Nowhere was that clearer than in Pennsylvania, the host to the convention, the traditional home of rugged Republicanism, the Keystone State whose 73 votes are second in weight only to New York...
...that is "sweet, smooth, and outwardly appealing." Bread, which was once the crusty staff of life, is now "half-masticated . . . before reaching the mouth," and caters to the taste which prefers fruit juice to fruit, chopped meat to a cut off the joint, mashed potato, ice cream, and a host of packaged powders which water turns into infinite varieties...
Every spring, about the time the cherry blossoms open in Washington, the National Academy of Sciences there opens its great bronze doors. George Washington University and the National Bureau of Standards, with other Government bureaus, play host to the nation's scientists. Last week hundreds of them met for their annual round of scientific gossip...
Next term's officers were elected and a host of local and national policy resolutions adopted at a Liberal Union meeting Thursday night in Leverett Junior Common Room...