D.N.B.
Americanabbreviation
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Particularly, they seemed to fear the British Second Army, which, D.N.B. screamed, was moving up to Emmerich under smoke screens with 80,000 to 120,000 men and lavish bridging equipment.
From Time Magazine Archive
Kurt Sell, plump-cheeked, well-liked Washington correspondent for D.N.B.,
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
"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
In addition to the article in the D.N.B., this great critic has one on “Cowper and Rousseau” in his Hours in a Library.
From Immortal Memories by Shorter, Clement King
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