Word: polisher
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OTTAWA, November 7--Some of the "missing" Polish art treasures brought to Canada for safekeeping during the war began turning up today as rival Polish factions continued their quarrel over the valuable collections...
...appeared not unlikely that all of the "lost" treasures would be accounted for soon, but when the present Polish government would get them seemed to be another matter...
...case of the "lost" treasures came to light last night when the present Polish minister to Ottawa, Dr. Alfred Fiderkiewics, charged that valuable gold and silver threaded gobelin tapestries and other art works and historical momentos were "missing" when he took office here a few months...
...would be a spire that climbs 1,776 ft. (The Fourth of July altitude is no accident; and, yes, the building would be the world's tallest.) As it rises, it would echo the lines of the Statue of Liberty just across the water, a sight that Libeskind, the Polish-born son of Holocaust survivors, first glimpsed as a teenager when he arrived in the U.S. by boat with his parents. In the scheme's subtlest gesture, that tower's upper elevation is given over not to offices but to "sky gardens," whole floors of plant life high above...
Libeskind's parents, Polish Jews, met for the first time in Kyrgyzstan, bordering China, to which they had separately made their way after escaping the Nazis in Poland and subsequently being arrested at the Soviet border, sent to Siberia, then released. Both lost most of their families in concentration camps. When they returned to Poland, they were trapped under the communist regime until the late 1950s, when an opportunity came for them to immigrate, first to Israel, then to New York with Daniel and his younger sister...