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Word: laewomba (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1942-1942
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Usage:

...Guinea's 300 native dialects, who had written many schoolbooks and translated the New Testament into Kate (pronounced Kah-teh), the hill natives' language which Finschhafen had adopted. There was brave, 63-year-old Rev. Stephan Lehner, who first brought God's word to the Laewomba cannibals in the Markham Valley. He won them by hanging cloth, paring knives and tobacco on a dead tree by a river-in native sign language, a surety that he was their friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Children of God | 3/30/1942 | See Source »

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