Word: polishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cheered by the return of allying Torbie Macdonald to his regular tailback post yesterday afternoon, the Crimson Varsity football squad went through a spirited workout, which was devoted to learning defensive assignments against Penn plays and acquiring a bit more offensive polish. This was topped off by a brisk 40 minute scrimmage between the C team and the Jayvees...
...casualty list of up to the soth of September 1939, which will not change materially, the total losses for the Army, Navy and Air Force, including officers, are as follows: 10,572 killed; 30,322 wounded; 3,404 missing. Unfortunately, of those missing a certain number who fell into Polish hands will probably be found to have been massacred and killed...
...Sept. 1, at my order, you lined up to defend our Reich against the Polish attack...
...There was no question," said Julien Bryan, "but that Germans slaughtered Polish civilians miles from military objectives. It wasn't a war against soldiers. It was a war against civilians. I arrived in Warsaw after most foreign correspondents had left. Each day I took a car, a camera, and an interpreter and drove out as near the front as I dared go. On September 15, two weeks after the invasion started, I went out to the suburbs on the German side of town...
...over her sister, refusing to believe what she saw. She touched the dead face tenderly, and exclaimed at its coldness. She began to cry, then, and to talk of how beautiful the face had been. When she stood up, I put my arm around her, and with the little Polish I know, tried to comfort...