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Klein   /klaɪn/   Listen
Klein

noun
1.
German mathematician who created the Klein bottle (1849-1925).  Synonym: Felix Klein.
2.
United States psychoanalyst (born in Austria) who was the first to specialize in the psychoanalysis of small children (1882-1960).  Synonym: Melanie Klein.
3.
United States fashion designer noted for understated fashions (born in 1942).  Synonyms: Calvin Klein, Calvin Richard Klein.



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"Klein" Quotes from Famous Books



... his buckwheat on promise of pay in paper dollars, and we milled it and barreled it, and made a deposit in Klein's sugar-bush. ...
— The Reckoning • Robert W. Chambers

... insistence of the foremen and forewomen, frequently mentioned by other workers besides Yeddie. Two years ago, in a waist and dress factory where 400 operatives—more than 300 girls and about 20 men—were employed for the company by a well-known subcontractor, Jake Klein, a foreman asked Mr. Klein to beset some of the girls for a degree of speed he said he was unwilling to demand. The manager discharged him. He asked to speak to the girls before he went away. The manager refused ...
— Making Both Ends Meet • Sue Ainslie Clark and Edith Wyatt

... Gehen und Kommen, Oder ein Heben und Tragen, Bereiten und Schaffen fuer Andre; Wohl ihr, wenn sie daran sich gewoehnt, dass kein Weg ihr zu sauer Wird, und die Stunden der Nacht ihr sind wie die Stunden des Tages: Dass ihr niemals die Arbeit zu klein und die Nadel zu fein duenkt, Dass sie sich ganz vergisst, und leben mag ...
— Home Life in Germany • Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick

... unserem, Lande; Cornelli wird erzogen; Einer vom Hause Lesa; 10 Geschichten fur Yung und Alt; Kurze Geschichten, 2 vols.; Gritli's Kinder, 2 vols.; Heimathlos; Im Tilonethal; In Leuchtensa; Keiner zu Klein Helfer zu sein; Onkel Titus; Schloss Wildenstein; Sina; Ein Goldener Spruch; Die Hauffer Muhle; Verschollen, nicht vergessen; Was soll deim aus ihr werden; Was ...
— Heidi • Johanna Spyri

... found that false membranes have formed in certain cases of mammitis in the cow, and Klein, after inoculating the diphtheria of man on the cow, found an ulcerous sore in the seat of inoculation and blisters on the teats and udder, in which he found what he believed to be the bacillus of diphtheria. The results are doubtful, even in the absence of false ...
— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture

... you get 'em?" Abe repeated. "Why, where does Hymie Salzman, designer for Sammet Brothers, and Charles Eisenblum, designer for Klinger & Klein, ...
— Abe and Mawruss - Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter • Montague Glass

... [Footnote 7: Klein, the French general, also a German, allowed himself to be kept in conversation by Prince, afterward field-marshal Schwarzenberg, who had been sent to negotiate terms with him, until the Austrians had reached a place of ...
— Germany from the Earliest Period Vol. 4 • Wolfgang Menzel, Trans. Mrs. George Horrocks

... greatest, newest, finest plot— Dramatic, humorous, and fresh— And, though I'm not in the profesh, I'll back this little play of mine Against Pinero, Fitch, or Klein. Sure fire! A knockout! It can't miss! The plot of it begins like this: The present time—that's what they've got To have—and then a modern plot. Jack Hammond, hero, loves a girl: Extremely jealous of an earl. The ...
— Tobogganing On Parnassus • Franklin P. Adams

... the human life at Tougaloo? College is out; the teachers are in the far North. Miss Emerson, Preceptress of the Girl's Hall; Mr. Hitchcock, Treasurer; Mr. Klein, Superintendent of the Farm; and Mr. Kennedy, Superintendent of Carpentry; and Mr. McKibban, borrowed from Macon school, are present to supervise the necessary work, for Tougaloo cannot be closed a day. With its farm and forest and its shops, it is to become for the Southwest ...
— American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 10, October, 1889 • Various

... days and avoid all danger." The others agreed that this would be a capital plan; and the distance by the road, which they had crossed a few miles to the south, and which runs from Lorenzo Marques up to Ladysdorp and the Murchison and Klein Lemba gold-fields, would not be above seventy miles. They would wait till daybreak showed them the amount of damage that had been done, and then start, and would be down at Lorenzo Marques in the evening, when, even if the news ...
— With Buller in Natal - A Born Leader • G. A. Henty

... Zeitabschnitt, welchen wir mit dt bezeichnen wollen, knnen wir die Geschwindigkeit v als unvernderlich ansehen. Der in diesem Zeitabschnitt zurckgelegte Weg, welcher ebenfalls sehr klein ist, sei ds. Dann ist vds/dt der Wert fr die Geschwindigkeit einer beliebig[10] vernderlichen Bewegung ...
— German Science Reader - An Introduction to Scientific German, for Students of - Physics, Chemistry and Engineering • Charles F. Kroeh

... market, which street now goes by his name. Since his time the house has been almost rebuilt and entirely new fronted. Its old features have been preserved in an etching by Fleischmann, after a sketch by J. A. Klein, at which period it was a beershop known by the sign of the "Golden Bear." Hans died full of years and honour in the year 1576, and is buried with the great men of his city in the ...
— Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places • Frederick William Fairholt

... A story of American Life. By Charles Klein, and Arthur Hornblow. With illustrations by Stuart Travis, ...
— At the Time Appointed • A. Maynard Barbour



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