Word: waterloo
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...those of Westphalia, signed in 1648 after seven years deliberation, those of Utrecht signed in 1713, eighteen months after the preliminaries, and that of Vienna signed June 9, 1815, fourteen months after the first capitulation of Napoleon but while the opposing forces were gathering for the final struggle at Waterloo...
...Saturday we heard of the Germans on Kemmel Hill, of Ypres almost certainly lost, and the enemy storm heavy over the Channel ports. Today we read of a British Cabinet Minister warning his countrymen against a coming peace offensive. And yet the week that is gone has witnessed no Waterloo, no battle of the Marne, though it may be that Von Arnim's defeat between Ypres and Locre may be discovered some day to have borne a much greater significance than the very considerable importance we attach to it now. What we are witnessing today in the spirit...
...Quentin in 883 A.D. Picardy was devastated in the Hundred Years' War between France and England, and the armies of the Emperor Charles V. invaded it, besieging Peronne in 1536 and St. Quentin 21 years later. Wellington led the English army through Peronne on the way to Paris after Waterloo. The neighboring fortress of Ham, which was wrecked last spring by the Germans, was the prison of Louis Napoleon from 1840 to 1846, and from it he escaped disguised as a laborer. In January, 1871, St. Quentin, Bapaume, Ham, and Peronne were the scenes of sanguinary battles between the Germans...
...Council also voted that the following Freshmen be awarded their association football insignia: Francis Beidler, Jr., of Chicago, III.; George Nathaniel Carpenter, of Castine, Me.; William Leverett Cummings, of Brookline; Edmund Ives Damon, of Waterloo, N. Y.; Ralph Ernest Henderson, of Newton; Sidney Sauzade Jordon, Jr., of Readville; Charles Edward Masters, of Newton; Robert Weigel Powers, of Nutley, N. J.; Walter Lyth Pyle, Jr., of Merion, Pa.; Edgar Ott Richards, of Easton, Pa.; Charles Putnam Smith, of Arlington; Henry Munson Spelman, Jr., of Cambridge; Ernest Ralph Sumner, of New York, N. Y.; and Ralph Rogers Weaver, of Whitestone...
...boastfulness but only of reminder it may be said that the Anglo-Saxon and his near kin have more than a bit of the "Hang on!" spirit which turns defeat into victory. The defence of Lucknow, the fight of the Bon Homme Richard, the squares at Waterloo, the Alamo, the peach orchard at Gettysburg, are examples of a spirit in which the American soldier has a share by inheritance direct, or by acquired collateral interest through adoption of our ideals and our citizenship. This trait of blood and breeding has been called upon in the present war; it will...