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...sets about a solution, but neither of them, aged 12, knows quite what to do. For three marks the butcher's boy consents to exhibit the mystery with a Polish girl, but the author runs away believing the girl is being murdered. When he later undresses the sleeping Mein-chen, a farm girl, he is too overpowered by female beauty to awaken her. Toward the end of the War, still studying Greek, he meets Anna, a trolley conductorette, and proves his love by taking her some of Germany's scarce meat from his mother's cupboard. Anna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind the Front | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Issue of July 29 contains a rather grating error on p. 21 second line under the third mention of the name STIMMING. "Mein herren"' is very poor. It should be "Meine Herren." Nouns are always capitalized no matter where they occur. "Mein" is singular but must agree with the plural of the modified noun in number, "Herren." You are giving yourself repeated boxes on the ears with such expressions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 12, 1929 | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...Karl." Last week as he stood in the enormous shadow of the Bremen, the General Director must have felt as proud as a flea that had whelped a whale. Too modest and certainly too wise to boast, STIMMING compressed his exultation into three sentences that spoke volumes, "Mein herren" he said in his always calm low voice to correspondents. "Gentlemen, every one likes to talk in periods of decades -of ten years. It is always a case of how things were ten years ago. But I should like to remind you that only eight years ago, thanks to the terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Bremen Uber Alles | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...pound class: Joseph Lifrak '29 defeated W. W. Mein '32 by decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE FAST BOUTS FEATURE UNIVERSITY MAT TOURNAMENT | 3/23/1929 | See Source »

...pound class: Joseph Lifrak '29 vs. W. W. Mein...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIP TO COME AT HEMENWAY TONIGHT | 3/22/1929 | See Source »

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