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Word: einen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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After that, Huett turned himself into a kind of street-corner John Kieran, with a sign on his back: "Ich sage Verse Dir; Gib einen Pfennig mir" ("I'll tell you a verse; you give me a penny.") Customers have flocked to him: schoolchildren who need help on their homework, and adults who want the words of the latest song. Huett has answered everything from "What happens in Schiller's Joan of Arc?" to "Recite some verses from Wilhelm Busch's Max und Moritz," has even been known to recite a geometric theorem or two. About...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pomes Penyeach | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

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