Word: funk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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ARTHUR J. FUNK...
...dictionary was the Century (now out of print), which appeared in 1889-91 with six volumes of word histories. It has since been superseded by a two-volume edition (cost: $12). For title of best one-volume laymen's dictionary the U. S. has two first-rate rivals. Funk & Wagnalls' Standard (cost: $16) features new spellings, has had for its editor since 1914 the most famed U. S. lexicographer. Frank Horace Vizetelly, 70. But most U. S. citizens still settle their bets by ''looking it up in Webster...
Keith C. Steele '35, chairman of the dance committee for the Lowell House's Annual Spring Dance has announced that Larry Funk and his orchestra will play at the dance to be held Friday evening, May 11. The committee appointed to take care of the arrangements for the affair is made up of Steele, Edward B. Lee, Jr. '34, Arthur Willis, Jr. '35, George T. Skinner '36 and David E. Gates...
...ROOSEVELT YEAR-Funk & Wagnalls ($2.75). †MEMORIES OF KUPEIKOW by Joseph Yu, M. I).-Liang Yon Printing & Publishing Co., Ltd., Shanghai ($1 gold...
...theme has, of course, been one of the favorite obsessions of Marxists since the foreign attacks of 1919-1920; but I do not think that up until very recently it has represented to them anything but an annunciation of doctrine. The thing that caused them to revive this political funk is the upsetting of the European status quo established at Versailles by the refurbishment of Germany under Hitler, with the result that a territorial realignment now looms. Obviously, the likeliest power at whose expense this realignment could be accomplished is Russia; in that way a war of mutual destruction could...