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Mann

[ mahn, man man ]

noun

  1. Heinrich [hahyn, -rik, hahyn, -, r, i, kh], 1871–1950, German novelist and dramatist, in the U.S. after 1940 (brother of Thomas Mann).
  2. Horace, 1796–1859, U.S. educational reformer: instrumental in establishing the first normal school in the U.S. 1839.
  3. Thom·as [tom, -, uh, s, toh, -mahs], 1875–1955, German novelist and critic, in the U.S. after 1937: Nobel Prize 1929.


Mann

/ man /

noun

  1. MannHeinrich18711950MGermanWRITING: novelist Heinrich (ˈhainrɪç). 1871–1950, German novelist: works include Professor Unrat (1905), which was filmed as The Blue Angel (1928), and Man of Straw (1918)
  2. MannThomas18751955MGermanWRITING: novelist his brother, Thomas (ˈtoːmas). 1875–1955, German novelist, in the US after 1937. His works deal mainly with the problem of the artist in bourgeois society and include the short story Death in Venice (1913) and the novels Buddenbrooks (1900), The Magic Mountain (1924), and Doctor Faustus (1947): Nobel prize for literature 1929


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Mann, the diplomat-spy, advocated for overt diplomacy rather than covert activity based on American principles, an especially striking position because he was later a diplomat-spy for the Confederacy during the Civil War.

It took just two years for Mann to rise from a director role to an executive one at Digital Trends, and the reasons are obvious.

From Ozy

Mann is a veteran of the climate wars of the 1990s and early 2000s, when the scientific evidence that the climate is changing due to human emissions of greenhouse gases was under attack.

Mann said that these types of first-party data collection plays are exactly what publishers should be doing to adapt their business models and keep a competitive advantage in the ad market.

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Mann is a positive place where team members are excited to come to work and have a voice in the company.

But when the ship arrives at the planet, they discover Dr. Mann—played by none other than Matt Damon.

On the second planet, they encounter a marooned astronaut named Dr. Mann, and a fistfight ensues.

What did you think of the fistfight sequence between Cooper and Mann on the second planet?

“I think, with Hopkins, he finally found some happiness,” Mann said.

It was fascinating for Mann to see how some things never change.

That terrifying Mann Act would account for his caution much better than would the business deal of which Foster had hinted.

"It was dreadful of me to make such a mistake," said Mrs. Mann, hysterically.

Go on with you, I know Mr. Mann too well to believe such a yarn.

He that's mann'd wi' boys and hors'd wi' colts will hae his meat eaten and his wark ill done.

Dr. Craig was the man whom Horace Mann thought it constituted an era in his life to know.

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