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Word: polishings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that future student campaigns do not take place under rules that are too little and too late, the Council and the Dean's Office should polish off the pending permanent "student bill of rights," containing specific rules for College groups. When the 1950 and 1952 battles begin, every campaigner should know where he stands--and where...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rally Rules | 10/21/1948 | See Source »

With his blonde pianist wife, Maria, 47-year-old Edward Sienkiewicz has found a home at the comfortable boardinghouse of Madame Clara Rubinstein, Santiago modiste and cousin of Polish-born Pianist Artur Rubinstein. He likes Chile: "Good climate, good people, and so far from Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Displaced Maestro | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

Perhaps the most satisfying moment the office had last year came when a woman walked in with a postal card. It was from the concentration camp in Poland where her husband was interned and it was written in Polish. She spoke only French. A quick look through the files and Holt phoned a student language expert, who translated it from Polish to English. A second man was called to put it into French...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holt Will Find You Work--In Any Language | 10/13/1948 | See Source »

...again!" The Russian lieutenant reappeared. He saw the Americans gathered near his motorcycle, and slipped back out of sight. One block away, in a tree-lined sidestreet, Morrow caught up with him. The lieutenant was now accompanied by a Russian private, whose Tommy gun he carried. Morrow said (in Polish, which the Russian understood): "I am unarmed. I want to find out what's happening here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Incident at the Widow Lehrte's | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...refugees had to take to sailing ships to escape the Red grasp. Last week's news was full of D.D.s-displaced diplomats. In Washington the Polish embassy military attache, General Izydor Modelski, ordered home by his Communist-run governme'nt, had point-blank refused to go, asked asylum in the U.S. He had a soldier's blunt reason: "I have never been a member of the Communist Party, nor have I ever been in sympathy with its aims...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Displaced Diplomats | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

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