Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Pope needs a good elevator to his private apartment. The present elevator is a simple square platform, dangerous were it not for its slow speed and the attendants who watch it on every floor. †Marshal Pilsudski gave him the Polish order of the White Eagle, and the University of Warsaw made him an honorary doctor-because he doughtily remained in Poland during the Bolshevik Invasion...
...land, and last year his firm together with Lehman Bros, and others backed Aviation Corp. His other interests are many, include important rail-road directorates. The firm was one of the first to enter Europe after the War, made many a loan in Germany. It has been active in Polish financing, and financed Silesian zinc mines with the Anaconda group...
...remains War Minister), will leave the prime ministry to swashbuckling Colonel Walery Slawek who prepared to take up his chores last week. Under the fantastic Pilsudski administration, oddly enough, Poland prospers steadily. Example: Gydnia, up to a few years ago a tiny fishing village, is now the first 100% Polish "Gateway to the Sea," teems with imposing dockyards, has just been connected with the centres of Polish industry by a new railway...
Brown's second contention is, that mass education is a healthy thing because it increases the emphasis placed upon the individual. In years past it was possible to give the few students a conventional polish and send them out into the world. Now with so many to instruct, it is not only advisable, but also necessary to "assay and sift" the multitudes. The various experiments that are being tried all over the United States are evidence of the soundness of the Chancellor's arguments. If the systems recently inaugurated at Harvard, Yale, Chicago, Rollins, and other universities are successful, they...
Although seventy-one years old, this great Polish master is still capable of the most difficult programs. On Tuesday he will play a most delightful blend of classical and modern music. Beethoven's Sonata in D minor followed by selections from Brahms and Handel, and then four sketches. Debussy will comprise the well balanced program...