Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were on the University of Washington Pacific Coast championship team, which this year defeated the University of Oregon, Leland Stanford and the University of British Columbia, receiving in the decisions 14 out of a possible 18 judges vote. Washington has been concentrating with great success on delivery and polish in oratory, in which they will undoubtedly excel the University team, whose hopes are based on clear thinking and logical reasoning...
Aside from these not very serious derogations, and a certain lack of polish in the minor parts,--Pygmalion is a very satisfactory and delightful performance, and anyone going to the Copley will be repaid with an evening of thorough enjoyment...
...plate at the head of a member of the French Mission with true Hohenzollern dexterity, he started more than even he expected. With the American Senate trying to squirm away from under world obligations, Great Britain gasping under active and latent industrial unrest, and the Bolshevik government threatening the Polish frontier, the German monarchists could not have picked a better time for their "comeback." France, alone, has been alive to the dangerous situation, but her warnings were only recently branded by President Wilson as imperialistic tendencies...
...play "Primerose" is a comedy by Gaston de Caillavet and Robert de Flers, and is given for the benefit of the Polish Relief Committee...