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YearBarefoot Waterski Jumping1995Justin Seers1996Ron Scarpa1997Peter Fleck1998Peter Fleck1999Event discontinuedYearMen's Wakeboarding1996Parks Bonifay1997Jeremy Kovak1998Darin…

Brewer's: Diddler

(Jeremy). An artful swindler; a clever, seedy vagabond, borrowing money or obtaining credit by his wit and wits. From Kenny's farce called Raising the Wind. Source: Dictionary of Phrase…

Brewer's: Greatest

The greatest happiness of the greatest number. Jeremy Bentham's political axiom. (Liberty of the People.) (1821.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer,…

2000 World Road Championships

at Plouay, France (Oct. 10-15)MenElite Road Race (268.9 km) Romans Vainsteins, LAT6:19:29Under-23 Road Race (169.8 km) Evgeni Petrov, RUS3:56:51Junior Road Race (127.4 km) Jeremy Yates, NZE2…

Brewer's: Utilitarians

A word first used by John Stuart Mill; but Jeremy Bentham employed the word “Utility” to signify the doctrine which makes “the happiness of man” the one and only measure of right and wrong…

Brewer's: Golden Chain

“Faith is the golden chain to link the penitent sinner unto God” (Jeremy Taylor). The allusion is to a passage in Homer's Iliad (i. 19-30), where Zeus says, If a golden chain were let down…

Brewer's: Idiot

meant originally a private person, one not engaged in any public office. Hence Jeremy Taylor says, “Humility is a duty in great ones, as well as in idiots” (private persons). The Greeks…