Word: polished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over 25,000 copies of Thomas Mann's new novel, "Joseph and His Brothers," have so far been sold in Germany. Translations of it have already been arranged in Italian, Danish, Polish, Dutch and English. In this country the book will be published in the Spring. Alfred A. Knopf has just sent the manuscript to the printer, and Mr. Elmer Adler, noted typographer and designer, is at work preparing the jacket. "Joseph and His Brothers" is Thomas Mann's first novel since 1924, when "The Magic Mountain," was published...
...firms, mines, smelters and foundries. As a bank director he finances armament loans. As the President of Union Europeenne Industriale et Financiere he has his finger in 230 armament and allied enterprises outside France. Chief of these is Czechoslovakia's Skoda. In this firm French, German, Czech and Polish directors come together in the friendliest spirit to discuss the problems of increasing European consumption of armaments...
...notice of her intention to resign from the League as a bluff to gain some of these concessions, but it is not certain that the bluff has failed. The concessions she wants are equality of armaments, either by Allied disarmament or by permission to rearm; the Saar Basin, the Polish Corridor, her former colonies and the Anschluss with Austria. If armament equality were conceded her, and the Nazis rose to power in Austria without so much outside aid as to precipitate a general European war, and the Saar reverted to her in 1935 as it is certain to do, Germany...
...these days of flux and change, when Harvard has a President who intends to make it an institution of higher learning, something greater, perhaps, than the pep-and-polish prevalent in the American college, the demands of the University on the preparatory school should be the subject of particular research. The repeated complaints against so many of the Freshman courses such as French 2, English 28, German A, find their basis as much in the failure of the preparatory schools to train their scholars for college work as in the poverty of inspiration in those seemingly necessary interludes...
Smug Cambridge barbarians repairing to the Germanic Museum to obtain a little more polish for their cultural veneer, gape dumbly at the exhibit there now on display. So foreign to them is a spirit better constituted to create than to jape, to judge, not jape, to direct, not to drift, to lead, not to lag, that they apprehend only their own failure to understand the inspiring evidence of the German spirit placed before them...