Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...without foreign trade, their standard of living would dwindle overnight. There would be no coffee, tea or bananas in the U.S. shops; sugar and pineapples would be priced skyhigh. Telephones (which need 48 different materials from 18 foreign countries), automobiles (300 items from 56 foreign countries) and shoe polish (eight items from abroad) would be scarce and more expensive. Said Harold Stassen last year: "The U.S. depends on the outside world for 100% of its tin, mica, asbestos and chrome, for 99% of its nickel, 95% of its manganese, 93% of its cobalt, 67% of its wool...
Dancing Dandy. The facts are that his family was connected with the Polish nobility, and his father was a well-to-do pharmacist in Baku. Andrei Yanuarevich, as he was called, was a spoiled young dandy who liked to dance, dress well, and take full advantage of his middle-class social position. He wanted to be a lawyer, but at Kiev University in those turbulent years at the turn of the century, a student had to make a political choice, or forego ambition. Figuring that the Czars were about washed up, Andrei chose the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social...
...house, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, gave $400,000 to Harvard Medical School (endowment: $23 million). Banker Merrill (an Amherst man himself) made the gift to establish a special professorship for heart diseases, to be named for Harvard Heart Specialist Samuel A. Levine. Dr. Levine. 63, the son of Polish immigrants, peddled newspapers in downtown Boston as a child, went through Harvard College and Medical School (Class of '14) on a scholarship from the Boston Newsboys' Union. A leading authority on coronary thrombosis, Levine is Merrill's close friend and physician, is credited by Merrill with saving...
...single discovery during World War 1: a new kind of sandpaper that flexed without cracking or shedding the abrasive. It was followed by a waterproof "Wetordry" sandpaper that was an instant success in the auto industry; for the first time carmakers could wet surfaces to be sanded or polished, thus eliminating heat and dust. In 1930, 3M brought out Scotch tape, and started a new industry. The tape replaced pins, string and glue, was put to work mending, sealing packages, insulating wires, masking paint jobs. Today 3M gets 35% of its total sales from Scotch tape, including Scotchlite, a reflecting...
Saturday's game seemed to represent a nutshell view of both teams' seasons--Yale's speed and polish accounting for an impressive first half, Harvard's emphasis on condition and fundamentals eventually allowing the Crimson to dominate and then win the game...