Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...degree in 1906, studying subsequently at Vienna, Berlin, and Moscow. In 1921 he received an honorary doctor's degree from the University of Lemberg in Poland. Since 1910 he has taught at the University. He served in 1918-19 with the American Commission to Negotiate Peace as expert on Polish affairs, and was American civilian representative on the First Interallied Commission to Poland...
...Wanda Landowska, Polish virtuoso, is a modern harpsichordist. A fortnight ago she performed charmingly upon her quaint old instrument to the accompaniment of the Chicago Orcestra...
...Poles and Germans were induced to agree to arbitrate any insuperable differences over the fate of the 200,000 Germans in Polish territory...
Although it is denied that there is any political flavor to the transaction, last week, Mussolini and the Polish Minister to Italy, M. Zalewsi, assisted by Signor Toplitz, manager of the powerful Banco Commerciale Italiana, agreed to a loan whereby Italy lends 400,000,000 lire ($20,000,000 at normal exchange) to Poland. The ceremony had an official character, is considered in some circles to be an "Italian answer" to the recent French loan to Czecho-Slovakia...
Harold Barlow and his native team do not yet possess the polish and precision that one expects of high-grade organizations. There is no question, however, but that they have won the right to some additional hearings. Later, perhaps, America may have an efficient orchestra, capable of extracting the best from the works of MacDowell, Loeffler, Carpenter, Deems Taylor. That would be indeed worth while...