Word: polished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have to dust off obsolete recording methods for emergency service. Reason was that bald, long-nosed William Fox, armed with a U. S. Supreme Court patent decision, was out of the well-lined hole into which he was cudgeled four years ago. This half-forgotten ex-newsboy and shoe-polish hawker was bent on raising as much hell as possible in the industry from which he had been exiled. In October 1929, William Fox celebrated the Silver Jubilee of his film enterprises. Frenzied buying and frenzied borrowing had made him the undisputed grand panjandrum of cinema, ruling...
...football unemployed, the rest of the Varsity received an A-1 demonstration of Notre Dame football from Cliff Gallagher's very capable Freshmen. After this exhibition of the same type of play that Holy Cross will use in the Stadium on Saturday, the Jayvees were called in to polish off the Varsity's afternoon...
Some 50 crack reporters, sob-sisters, cameramen, ranging from the august New York Times to the Polish Everybody's Record jammed the press tables in Luzerne County Courthouse at Wilkes-Barre. Most conspicuous of all was the hulking, white-crowned figure of Author Dreiser. Rip-snorting Publisher Julius David Stern, who has been trying to transform the ancient New York Post into a wild-&-woolly liberal sheet, had hired Dreiser to cover the trial for the Post, the Philadelphia Record, and a syndicate string. Author Dreiser was also covering for Mystery Magazine...
...Miner of the Dental School devoted his concluding emphasis to the opinion that the "future of dentistry must lie in prevention, not cure." And with all the untrammeled certainty of a man who is accustomed to see to it that his own prophecies come true, he went on to polish off his brief for the importance of dental research with a declaration that "dentists will not be content with anything less than complete equality with the other branches of the medical profession...
...their record in world competition, Poland may well be proud of her flying sons. Month ago Polish flyers finished first and second in the fourth international air race for sporting planes, beating a field of 31 planes over a 5,900-mi. course through nine European countries. Last week, in the 22nd annual James Gordon Bennett balloon race at Warsaw, Polish flyers took not only the first two places, but the third as well. Winning balloon drifted 830 mi. to Ryazan, U. S. S. R. Chief excitement of the race was furnished by over-zealous Soviet frontier guards who fired...