Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Princess to the scene of the Battle of Waterloo came Prince Napoleon, 39, great-grandnephew of the Little Corporal, to visit Bonaparte's old farmhouse headquarters. They brought with them a gift for the Belgian Society of Napoleonic Studies: a pennon of the Imperial Guard, carried from the battlefield 138 years...
...past 35 years, Fasig-Tipton has auctioned stock for everyone in the horsy set from the Vanderbilts to the Aga Khan, at an average fee of about 5% of the sale price. Among the biggest prizewinners it has handled: Battlefield, which went for $4,500 and has already earned $430,000; Alsab, which sold for a paltry $700 and earned Owner Mrs. Albert Sabath $350,000; and Man o' War, the equine immortal which went for $5,000 and racked up a gross track income...
Conceived in this way rather than as a battlefield for the cognoscenti, old and young, the humanities are central to a general college education. It is my conviction that may of the younger members of the Harvard staff, particularly those interested in the General Education. program, see the matter in just this light. For this reason I believe the future of the humanities at Harvard is certain to be bright...
Said General Jean Gilles: "We only pray they will attack us." The commander of Nasan waved his hand around the encircled battlefield: the dusty mile-long airstrip and the score of 500-ft. hills around it. Every hill and every valley was a network of barbed wire and dug-in strong points; with its 12,000 French troops, air-supplied by a constant shuttle of planes, Nasan was like a military anthill. French officers likened it to the classic French position at Verdun, the great turning-point battle of World...
...many years Littauer's broad policy approach has opposed the trade school approach up and down the battlefield of the public service, until, one by one, the country's other administration schools grudgingly adopted the Littauer method...