Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fordham's "Seven Blocks" the most impressive are a Polish Block and an Italian Block. The Italian is 5-ft. 8-in., 200-lb. Edmund Franco, left tackle, whom Coach Crowley calls the best college lineman he has ever seen. The Pole is 5-ft. 11-in., 190-lb. Center Alexander Franklin Wojciechowicz (pronounced Woe-gee-hoe-wits), whose hobbies are cooking and helping his mother crochet rag rugs. Last week Fordham's Franco, Wojciechowicz & colleagues blocked so efficiently that Purdue's Isbell, Drake & colleagues gained only 54 yards rushing all afternoon, one-third as many...
...long time before the astronomers at the Observatory get out their telescopes and look for new asteroids or other strange objects in the constellation Cetus all night on the word of Polish star gazers named Kwiek...
...Monday night the powerful instruments combed and re-combed the heavens for the object which the Polish Ponzan Observatory cabled they saw Sunday, and which was supposed to resemble the famous Delporte object discovered last spring...
Discovered only yesterday morning by Polish astronomer Kwlek of the Poznan Observatory, the strange object is believed to be an unusual asteroid or small planet similar to the Delporte object which last spring set the astronomical world agog with its close approach to earth...
...This week the big orchestras in Cleveland, Cincinnati and Chicago will start their seasons, under such proven leaders as Polish Artur Rodzinski, British Eugene Goossens and square old Frederick Stock, born a German but for many a year a proud Chicago institution. St. Louis' hopes are high again for a series of concerts under Vladimir Golschmann, the sleek Franco-Russian who has built himself a strong Missouri following. The Los Angeles Philharmonic was driving for money last week and awaiting the return of towering Otto Klemperer. San Francisco stages its opera season first, but by midwinter the rejuvenated symphony...