Frankfurt
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3 English words in this atlas trace back to Frankfurt. It sits in Germany.
The hot dog’s older name is a city adjective.
German Frankfurter names a sausage from Frankfurt am Main. English borrowed the adjective and later shortened the food to frank.
The Frankfurt School wrote its most famous books in American exile.
The institute opened in Frankfurt in 1923, but its leading figures fled Germany in 1933 and did their best known work in New York and southern California. The label itself came into general use only after the war, once some of them had returned to the city.
A word that looks like a demonym in practice means about a dozen exiled theorists.
The Institute for Social Research opened at the University of Frankfurt in 1923; Adorno, Horkheimer and Marcuse are its best known figures, and most of the group left Germany in 1933 and worked in the United States. The school kept the city's name throughout its exile, and the adjective describes its style of cultural criticism. A New York Times reviewer in 1989 wrote of a critic wielding that old Frankfurtian bludgeon.