Word: adamant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problem for the psychoanalyst. Perhaps Mr. Dyar was unhappy in his chosen profession. Perhaps he tired of beetles and bugs, and longed for the higher, the nobler things of life--and dug underground tunnels. Or perhaps he felt a call down the long ages from his delving ancestor, Adam...
Also there is Funk & Wagnalls Co., publishers of The Literary Digest, The International Book Review, and The Standard Dictionary. Twelve years ago, Dr. Isaac K. Funk, senior partner, died. Last week, Adam Willis Wagnalls died...
...Adam Willis Wagnalls was born 81 years ago in Lithopolis, Ohio. Aged 24, he founded and was pastor of the First English Lutheran Church of Kansas City. After two years as clergyman, he served two in Atchison, Kan., as City Clerk; then went to Manhattan to enter the publishing business of Isaac Funk, a fellow alumnus of Wittenberg College (Springfield, Ohio...
...ligious Knowledge, Hoyt's Cyclopedia of Quotations, Cyclopedia of Classified Dates and other monumental works. Dr. Funk's guiding passion was for undertakings on a big scale with a special penchant for lexicography. When he died, he had just completed the manuscript for The New Standard Dictionary. Adam Willis Wagnalls found his forte in the financial rather than in the editorial side of the business. He remained active in the firm until a few months ago, when his health failed...
...Died. Adam Willis Wagnalls, 81, famed publisher; at Northport, L. I. (See Page...