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Word: polishing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Passengers boarding the Century always tread plush. But next week the red platform carpets will be new, as red and plush as money can buy. Brass polish will be copiously consumed this week on observation-car railings, and, no doubt, even upon the service-shiny buttons of John Joseph Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Century | 6/13/1927 | See Source »

...days ago on the platform of a railway station in Warsaw, a Russian monarchist student assassinated M. Voikoff, the Soviet Minister to Poland. The Polish Minister at Moscow was immediately instructed to express to the Soviet government Poland's deep regret; President Moseicki of Poland sent a message of like effect to President Kalinin of the Soviet; the Polish foreign minister forwarded a similar communication to the Soviet Foreign Office. The Polish government seemed to have done all that was reasonably possible. But the matter was not allowed to drop by the Soviet officials, and a sharp protest was returned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ASSASSINATION | 6/9/1927 | See Source »

...Prevents Polish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Character v. Show | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...only possible objection to your paper is that it arrives at 11 a. m. Saturday morning when I am putting the finishing touches on my Sunday morning sermon. It almost prevents the final polish (if any) of my sermon. It requires two hours for me to read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Character v. Show | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...days: 1) The Reichstag voted 323 to 41 to continue for two more years the Protection of the Republic Bill, debarring Wilhelm II from returning to Germany. 2) His Excellency General von Pawels announced that under his direction there have been destroyed the last of the fortifications along the Polish frontier which Germany agreed to scrap in return for concessions from the Allies (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Mentality | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

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