Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Michigan's GerhardMennen Williams. In winning an unprecedented sixth term as Governor, he lost polish. Reason: his 138,000 plurality was fifth best on the ticket, will discourage liberals outside Michigan from committing themselves, especially with Humphrey around...
Plans for the lecture series grew out of an exchange program developed two years ago during an Anglo-Polish seminar at the University of London, MacKenzie said. Grants from the British Government and the Ford Foundation have allowed Polish students to study at London...
...Polish students I taught were by no means narrow-minded and hag-ridden by doctrine," he noted. "In fact, one of them, with no formal education in English, had learned enough of the language through radio broadcasts and later by his own interest to deliver a graduate school seminar in English at the end of his stay...
MacKenzie's lecture series will be a condensed version of the course he has been teaching at the University this semester. Lectures will be in English with translations into Polish coming at either 15 minute intervals or at the end of the lecture...
...Colonel. A notably comic and often touching study in the art of survival, demonstrated by Danny Kaye as a Polish refugee who keeps one jump ahead of the invading Nazi armies in France by using his brains and his heart...