Word: waterloos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...estimated that more than a million of bushels of human and inhuman bones were imported last year from the continent of Europe into the port of Hull. The neighbourhood of Leipsic, Austerlitz, Waterloo, and of all the places where, during the late bloody war, the principal battles were fought, have been swept alike of the bones of the hero and of the horse which he rode . . . thence forwarded to the Yorkshire bone grinders . . . sold to the farmers to manure their lands...
German A, the waterloo of many first-year men, is down to 401 from 465. Although Naval Science remains stable, Military Science 1 continues to lose ground with only 50 students enrolled this year...
When General Johnson set out last week on a month's tour of the West to cultivate goodwill for NRA, he resolved to be on his best behavior. At Waterloo, Iowa he delivered his first speech (see p. 12). It was one of the most conciliatory, public utterances he had made in months. Curbing his reckless Johnsonese, he did not say that all his opponents were chiselers, did not claim that NRA was responsible for all recovery to date. And in opening his remarks he even put in a word of understanding for the newspaper publishers who battled him tooth...
Thus he set out on his vacation. It was marred by airplane trouble. His plane came down once at Rantoul, Ill., another landed him at Waterloo, Iowa. There, in the hippodrome of the Waterloo Dairy Cattle Congress, 4,500 farmers and farm women gave him a hand as his white shoes waded through the inch-thick dust on the dirt floor to put him before the microphone. Save for paying his compliments to Germany (see p. 9), he delivered a mild defense of NRA: "When anybody tells you that NRA and the Blue Eagle have not done for the farmer...
...tall, handsome, debonair young golfer, with a job at the Waterloo Club at Brussels, Cotton plays without the characteristic nervous waggle of his British confreres, drives a red Mercedes roadster, is reputed to be the best dressed professional golfer in Europe. He brought with him to Sandwich last week his private trainer & masseur. On the third round Cotton got a creditable 72. On the fourth he blew up completely with a 79, but by that time he was so far ahead it made no difference. His 283 tied Gene Sarazen's record Open total...