Word: umlaut
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sympathetic and helpful ''Kitty" can be, even though he appears so austere. On my oral examination for the doctorate he tried thus to prevent my thick-headedness from becoming too evident by dropping several hints as to what the proper answer was to some question about Germanic umlaut. Well, we went ''round and around," but it didn't work; I didn't catch on. Finally, in exasperation, he shouted, "Confound you, can't you see what I'm trying to suggest...