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...alike and mean the same thing -- for example, person, winter and arm. Plenty of words have only slight differences: if you're nervous in English, you're nervos in German. With a little imagination, one can find any number of common roots. Take, for example, the verb to smell: riechen, from the same root as the English reeks. The malodorousness does not exist in the German word, but the odor does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany: And Now for Sprachvergnugen | 7/9/1990 | See Source »

...Harvard lineup--Riechen, g; Witherspoon, pt; White, c. pt; Magurn, ld; Cushman, 2d; Campion, c; Scott, la; Hunsacker, 2a; Hammond, o.h; Wood, lh. Harvard Substitutes--Tonner, Dorman. Taliaferro, Sullivan, Blanchard, Baker, Hartstone, Shepard, Elrod, Downey, Cleveland. Referee--Dugan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Lacrosse Ten Beat Boston Club 11-4 in Opener | 4/20/1937 | See Source »

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