Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guarantee the Rhine frontier against aggression in a treaty between Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, Germany (TIME, Mar. 16). The offer tacitly agreed to abandon any claim to Alsace and Lorraine, and was in the nature of a frank recognition of the status quo. The Eastern frontier (i.e., the German-Polish-Czecho-Slovakian boundary) was specifically left for final settlement through arbitration...
...some of alien, some of unknown parentage?who are quick to become dicers, toss-pots and wastrels if steps are not taken to make them demean themselves with proper decorum. Last week, two movements were set afoot which will doubtless greatly further the moral education of these Huckleberry Finns? Polish, Jewish, Italian, Irish and American...
...three conventional phrason...among the most popular of which is the saying that if an undergraduate takes part in extra-curriculum activities, he will "find himself." Of course, what happens to the undergraduate when he goes out for competitions is that he acquires a sort of polish by contact with other men, and in becoming conventional like his fellow undergraduates, learns to be more at case in their presence. A sensible person, on the other hand, does not worry about "finding himself," for he realizes that that in its literal sense, may take a great many years. Instead, he will...
...College has become a stamping mill. Almost all men wear its stamp after graduation. Few of them roll about sufficiently, afterwards, to gain smoothness or polish or even to lose the narrow, confined shape it gives them...
...Skill in technical detail, reality of miniature work, grandeur of the large sets in this country is diversified by the artistic feeling of European producers. America, the real inventor, has gone ahead in a practical way to commercialize moving pictures; but the presence of a German director or a Polish actress has been responsible for nearly half of great American films. Europe has become the mistress...