Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dying fires of the Polish-Lithuanian boundary dispute over Vilna do not signify that the heat is dead. An armistice agreed upon by both sides is only a lull in the hostilities that have been adding their quota to wrecking the peace equilibrium maintained with such immense difficulty in Europe...
Only a few days ago Lithuania was shelling the Polish front and many casualties have been reported. It is to Poland's credit that she has refrained as far as possible from taking any steps calculated to aggravate an already serious position. As the final decision with reference to the demarcation line between Poland and Lithuania rests with those governments, it is at least comforting that they had the good sense to come together with the intention of trying to settle their dispute by peaceable methods...
Count do Prorok is a Polish scholar who has been working with the French excavators on the site of ancient Carthage. He will tell of the discoveries which have already been made there and outline the possibilities for further advance...
...rise to all sorts of tempting, generalities. Is Harvard abandoning the Law School to the Philistine and sending forth its alumni to conquer the field of education? Or is the undergraduate section of the College going back to the days of the "nil admirari", when education meant refinement and polish and a carefully aurtured lack of interest in anything that meant applied study? Either conclusion can be derived from these facts...
...easily been made ridiculous or unduly stiff, but with the exception of her song in the second act, which was poorly executed and entirely out of place, her performance was far better than could be expected from one of her limited experience. When time and conscientious effort have added polish and artistic discretion to her by no means insignificant personal qualifications, great things may be expected...