Word: noch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When he hit on his bathroom solution of Fermat's equation, Krieger at once cabled to Göttingen asking whether the 100,000-mark prize was still there. Back came the answer: "Preis besteht noch" (Prize still stands). Krieger doubted, however, that Adolf Hitler would allow the money to leave Germany, especially since the claimant was conspicuously non-Aryan. A matter which he apparently overlooked was that the prize is offered for proof of the theorem, whereas his solution, if valid, would constitute disproof...
Everyone was gay after the fights. The innkeeper lost account of the debts owed for "noch ein Bier" and we settled up, students' regular procedure, for about 25? on the dollar. On the way back to the station. I was with a crowd of students that was particularly gay: some of the largest fellows used their combined weight to get both the front wheels and the motorman up in the air. B. W. WETHERBEE...