D.N.B.
Americanabbreviation
Example Sentences
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"The Russians showed the utmost tenacity," wrote Napoleon's General Armand de Caulaincourt, as any D.N.B. reporter might have this week.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
D.N.B. reported: "He is no longer among living beings."
From Time Magazine Archive
The initial preposterousness of such German "unofficial sources" as D.N.B. was the same as ever: it was claimed that 1,200 Russian planes were destroyed in the first two days.
From Time Magazine Archive
And that is all the particular Liar who wrote his biography in the D.N.B. can tell us about him.
From Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
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