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D.N.B.

American  

abbreviation

British.
  1. Dictionary of National Biography.


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More information can be obtained from the bibliographies appended to the volumes in Longmans’ Political History, or the chapters in the Cambridge Modern History, or to the biographical articles in the D.N.B. and Ency.

From Project Gutenberg

Nos. 815-834 and 860-931; D.N.B., art. sub voce.

From Project Gutenberg

D.N.B. reported that Rundstedt had been relieved because of ill health, a plausible enough reason, had not the same agency's correspondents, two weeks earlier, reported on his "firm, healthy stride."

From Time Magazine Archive

Kurt Sell, plump-cheeked, well-liked Washington correspondent for D.N.B.,

From Time Magazine Archive

Most sinister revelation concerned the Nazi news-dealings of Transocean News Service, an affiliate of D.N.B., an out-&-out propaganda mill.

From Time Magazine Archive