Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Setchkareff teaches courses on Russian literature and has written extensively on this subject. Weintraub, who has been at the University since 1950, is an authority on Polish civilization...
...Premier Moshe Sharett to make the race. Mapai put up a second-string candidate instead. He was beaten. The strong right-wing Herut Party ganged up with minor leftist parties in Ben-Gurion's own coalition to elect 75-year-old Nahum Nir, onetime head of the Polish Waiters' Union (who boasts that in 1906 in Warsaw he led the world's first successful strike against tipping...
...Fifty forty-niners felt that Princeton's greatest gifts were social polish, prestige or contacts, but 251 soberly testified that from their college years they got an "education and ability to think." Naturally, education did not solve all problems; 20 believe that World War III is inevitable and 172 think it likely; 374 tax-ridden Princetonians are convinced that the U.S. will become more socialistic. Gloomiest statistics: 80 happy men find living within income "a snap," but 328 say it is a struggle, and for 40 desperate graduates it is "impossible...
...system for heating houses, developed a "new theory of the universe" which attributed the movement of astral bodies in space to electrical attractions and repulsions. He was an immensely likable lush, and a wizard at the easel. But his pictures never sold well. They lacked extravagance and high polish; for all but the quietest of dining rooms they spoke too softly of small delights. At the end, his wife was forced to take in boarders to support the family. As his last job before he died at 51, Raphaelle Peale was reduced to writing "lovesick poems" for a baker...
Although the sextet gave the Tigers few real scoring opportunities during the first period, it played poorly, appearing tired from its heavy schedule. But Princeton's success was short-lived, as the varsity's passing and playmaking gathered polish in the final stanzas...