Mann

[mahn, man, man]

noun

1. Heinrich 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. Thomas 1875–1955, German novelist and critic, in the U.S. after 1937: Nobel Prize 1929.

Mann

/ man /

noun

1. 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. 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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The government's independent adviser on antisemitism, Lord Mann, told the Home Affairs Committee he "struggled" with some "inaccurate" details given by the West Midlands force.

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The Springbok lock Etzebeth was then sent off for his attack on Mann in what proved the only blot on South Africa's copybook.

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"This is one of the longest reviews I can ever remember," Test Match Special commentator Simon Mann said.

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Mann impressed in the number seven shirt against Japan, while Wales will continue to monitor Wainwright's fitness after he came off last weekend.

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Glass Lewis’s CEO Bob Mann said in October that “It’s clear that clients in the U.S. are moving. If that’s because the politics of the space is changing, so be it.”

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