Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ways and Means Committee continued last week to polish the tax reduction measure which it is preparing for the House when it meets on Dec. 7. Three points chiefly were decided last week...
Because all good parents are jealous of the health of their young, a house guest in a married home usually seeks to ingratiate himself by his knowing and considerate treatment of the babies with which it is blessed. He is aware, if his polish is not sadly at fault, that the art of playing with an infant is to amuse without exciting it; to lull it into a state of somnolence, and, after it is asleep, to walk on tiptoes and refrain from loud talk, from playing the phonograph...
...claims for it that it is only slightly heavier than aluminum, much lighter than brass or iron, that it will withstand a pressure of more than 50 tons to the square inch, that it does not corrode, that earth acids do not affect it, that it takes a polish like silver, and that it can be manufactured to sell at about a dollar a pound. He calls it Mac-L-ite. If his claims are true, and if he engages a competent lawyer, he will be rich...
...Arbitration Treaty form is well exampled in the German-Czecho-Slovakian treaty of 22 articles. The German-Polish treaty is exactly similar, and the German-French and German-Belgian treaties differ from it by the striking out of one article only, the 21st. In the German-Czech treaty...
Smart tricks are in the Dartmouth bag: a triple pass, executed with the polish of a fortune-teller's shuffle; criss-cross plays that befuddled the Harvard backs as much as if they had seen Halfback Oberlander (Dartmouth) take a rabbit out of his helmet. Dark fell before Harvard's last frantic forward pass slipped through groping butterfingers to the ground. Score: Dartmouth 32, Harvard...