Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Duane then introduced Mme. Curie, who briefly thanked the audience for the welcome accorded her. There followed the presentation of a written address from Polish women and a musical program by a chorus of Polish children and by Miss Edith Bullard...
Correspondence comes to the Bureau from all over the United States and foreign countries as well, asking questions and requesting all sorts of information about plans and policies in vocational guidance. We have recently answered a number of questions for the use of the Polish government at Warsaw. Persons occasionally come to the Bureau to ask advice about their own career, and Mr. Allen has recently been appointed Coordinator for the Federal Board students in training at Harvard University...
According to the original plan adopted by the Supreme Council of the League of Nations in 1919, Upper Silesia was to be given outright to the Poles because of the predominance of Polish population. But this idea has been abandoned due to the strong claims of the Germans who maintain that this country,-some 5000 square miles in area,-having been in German hands for seven hundred years, has become thoroughly Teutonized and does not desire, therefore, to become a part of Poland. Furthermore, the Germans claim that they will be unable to pay their war debt without...
Partisan feeling is at present running high, inasmuch as tomorrow is the date set for holding the plebiscite. The people living in Upper Silesia who are permitted to participate in the voting, number about 600,000, of whom 62 percent are Polish. This number would be sufficient to ensure a Polish victory were it not for the provision in the Versailles Treaty, which permits the return of all the native sons to the plebiscite who were born there before the year 1900. Germany is naturally making every effort to have all those born in Silesia return to their birthplace...
...infrequently opens business opportunities into which men may stop and find their legal training of invaluable assistance to them, few men who do not intend to make their livelihood at the bar can afford to spend three years at law school for the sake of the additional polish it may give to their general education. Nor is it advisable for any man to take up the study of the law in this dilettante spirit...