Word: munds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...News, Va. Adney also has another interest. He believes vocal sounds in every tongue express common mental reactions. On this theory he explains similarities between European and North American Indian speech. Example: in the language of the Algonquian Indian, mundo means God or, literally, "protecting hand"; in Anglo-Saxon, mund meant hand. Explains Adney: "[By this method] I have cracked words and phrases the original meaning of which had been believed lost beyond recovery...
...English, in three they under stood it but answered me in German. In only one, a bookshop on Kaiser Wilhelmstrasse, they answered in glutinous English. Of English books it had almost none. Most of its stock was German of pre-war origin. It had picture postcards of Swakop mund and Windhoek, and of Hamburg and Heidelberg...
...disease. Germany will be unable to provide the food herself, not knowing how long the war will last and hence how carefully, she must budget her food resources. She should, therefore, welcome the opportunity to have something done for her, and will hardly look a gift horse in the Mund. Furthermore, the amount of food that would be kept on hand by the Committee would never be more than would support Germany for over three days, so that Germany would not be able to allow a surplus, to build up and profit by a seizure...