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  • When we climbed the hill to Lenard's institute and knocked on the door, the Hausmeister went upstairs to announce our arrival.

    Walther Bothe and the Physics Institute: the Early Years of Nuclear Physics 2010

  • A side note to all of this: as a result Damon actually got to talk to the Hausmeister for a couple of minutes, who we haven't seen around in a while.

    Archive 2007-03-01 C N Heidelberg 2007

  • Damon called that guy, who said he would contact our Hausmeister to see if he knew what was going on.

    Archive 2007-03-01 C N Heidelberg 2007

  • * A while back I said we found out that the Hausmeister isn't the one who changes our name in the elevator after all.

    Archive 2007-07-01 C N Heidelberg 2007

  • Because of that vast key system which is part of the intricacy of the very good housekeeping of Frau G----, there was no necessity to disturb the Hausmeister; but nothing could lessen the wail of the door which let them in with a groan, and closed behind them with a bang that was worthy of the occasion.

    A Woman's Will Anne Warner 1891

  • This was the consul himself, who proved to be an old companion-in-arms, and into whose awful presence the colonel was ushered by a _Hausmeister_ in

    A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories William Dean Howells 1878

  • Die Geburtstagsfeier; Der Hausmeister; Die Heimkehr; Betrogen.

    The Nobel Prize in Literature 2005 - Bio-bibliography 2005

  • Among the works on exhibit are "Bocanegra," in which Okón collaborated with a group of Nazi enthusiasts who dressed up in vintage uniforms and were recorded in a variety of orchestrated situations; "Canned Laughter," a simulation of a maquiladora that "cans laughter," juxtaposing a good guffaw with the grim realities of factory labor; "Hausmeister," in which a man comes out of a mouse hole-like opening in a wall and crawls on the ground hissing and growling;

    SFGate: Top News Stories Tamara Straus 2010

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