Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Good Term . . ." How did it happen? For one thing, as Dwight Eisenhower said later, "Maine had a very popular governor." Genial Ed Muskie, son of a Polish immigrant, had turned in a successful administration, programmed improvements in social welfare, education, development of natural resources, asked for a minimum wage law, a new department of industry and commerce, and proposed a bond issue to maintain the pace of highway construction. What further fired Maine's independent-minded voters was Muskie's straightforward eggheadedness (Bates '36, Phi Beta Kappa), his ability to discuss convincingly ethical and moral questions...
...Yearbook of American Churches. Thus 60.9% of U.S. citizens are now affiliated with religious bodies as compared with 57% in 1950, 36% in 1900. Denominational breakdown: 58,448,567 Protestants, 33,396,647 Roman Catholics, 5,500,000 Jews, 2.386,945 Eastern Orthodox, 367,370 Old Catholics and Polish National Catholics, and 63,000 Buddhists...
...derogatory to Army leadership during combat." A more serious charge is that the picture spends more time making melodrama than making sense. Even in its fighting, the dice are curiously loaded: the G.I.s are shown as tattered scarecrows on the edge of exhaustion in contrast to the spit-and-polish Nazis, who wear uniforms more appropriate to the parade ground than to combat. A similar imbalance flaws the plot. Smithers, though he has the courage to murder his captain, is earlier depicted as a man too irresolute to take command even when Eddie Albert is totally incapacitated by fear...
...dramatic flair than sensuous feeling, his canvases strike right through the retina to the mind. Yet whether his pictures are sufficiently rich in color, firm in drawing and subtle in composition to live beyond the grave is another question. Masterpieces generally are constructed either with the utmost care and polish or else with what Transcendentalist Emerson himself called "nerve and dagger." Wight is too self-conscious to be really bold, too rushed to polish much...
After outfitting the moon, engineers will polish it to reduce friction in flight until it resembles the silvery "gazing globes" that decorate many American lawns. "The moon," says B. & P. President E. Howard Perkins, "will be utterly smooth and mirror-bright...