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Word: waterloos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...colloquially, Julian Hedworth George Byng, Baron Byng of Vimy, Viscount Byng of Vimy and of Thorpe le Soken, recently Governor General of His Majesty's Dominion of Canada (1921-26), and grandson of Field Marshal Sir John Byng who fought and conquered with the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Fancies into Facts | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

This book, with its careful tracing of the Fortune's growth in each successive European crisis, is answer enough to the Waterloo legend. For years Europe believed that Nathan himself posted from Waterloo to London, took his accustomed place by a pillar on the Exchange and stood there, a picture of dejection and despair, while his agents bought what the world sold in frenzy, creating the Fortune in a single morning. Count Corti does not trouble to disprove the story; the Fortune was established long before Waterloo, and weathered the Napoleonic cyclone with its turbulent aftermath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rothschild Sons | 6/25/1928 | See Source »

...change is partially due to pressure from alumni, who have informed the school authorities that while it was all very well for the Duke of Wellington to say that Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, it is more important now to win the Davis Cup or the Wimbledon championship. Another factor is the deserting of the students themselves from cricket in favor of tennis. Eton will start off with eight hard courts as an experiment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ETONIANS DESERT RUGBY AND CRICKET FOR TENNIS | 3/9/1928 | See Source »

...always been the prerogative of the historian to present facts as they are known and to interpret them as his opinions and affiliations dictate. The English give to the Iron Duke the credit for Waterloo, the Germans acclaim Bluecher, and the French maintain that the battle was not won, that it was only lost. However much written history displeases a nation that considers itself aggrieved, active measures at suppression are rarely taken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUTLAWED HISTORY | 2/25/1928 | See Source »

...history of the staging of Greek tragedies goes back to about 1850, when Thomas De Quincey described the first Greek play to be produced in Great Britain as the "next best thing to having seen Waterloo at sunset on the 18th of June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oedipus and Jocasta Drew Customers at $25 a Head Not So Long Ago--Sophocles Scored Smash in Cambridge of 1881 | 4/27/1927 | See Source »

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