Word: burnished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Britons are now helping Adolf Hitler to break the Treaty of Versailles and burnish Germany's shining armor anew, General Goring cried fervently: "We welcome Great Britain into the community of Germanic Blood!" At the Berlin festival Nazi youths chanted the refrain: "Today we have Germany, tomorrow we will have the world...
...Parliament which met at Frankfort to create a united Germany, and which dispersed in the face of armed fact. There he could have satisfied his lust for unlimited declamation. Cheated of his heritage by a trick of Fate, he can at least assuage his yearning by letting Professor Fay burnish the plates of memory when he talks of "German Unity in 1848 and '49", in Harvard 1, today, at 10 o'clock...