Word: funk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich countries are getting poorer," boasted plump Dr. Walther Funk, Reichsminister of Economics, in Rome last week, "and the young poor ones getting richer...
...companion book to Your Wings, Funk & Wagnalls last fall published Jordanoff's Through the Overcast, a course in weather and instrument flying done in the same pithy, well-illustrated style. By itself and packaged with Your Wings it has thus far sold 10,000 copies in the U. S., is still going at the rate of about 500 a week...
...Edison), movie consultant and test pilot. By 1929 he was able to set down his flying notions in good plain English in newspapers and magazines. In 1932 he turned out a book, Flying, and How To Do It, that sold mightily for a dollar. On the strength of this, Funk & Wagnalls engaged him to write a $2.50 book, Your Wings...
Died. Dr. Frank Horace Vizetelly, 74, most famed U. S. lexicographer, for 24 years editor of Funk & Wagnalls' New Standard Dictionary; of pneumonia and pleurisy; in Manhattan. British-born, Dr. Vizetelly became a battler for U. S. colloquialisms ("cootie," "boloney," "chiseler," "it's me," "go slow," "pretty good," "loan me a pencil," "can I go"). In 1925 he proposed that the English alphabet be enlarged from 26 to 62 letters to provide one symbol for each sound, a plan which, it was estimated, would necessitate re-spelling of most of the 550,000 words in the language...
...educating high-school youth. Almost all boys & girls today enter high school. Four-fifths do not go on to college. Still largely classical and college preparatory, however, high schools "fail to give boys and girls a scientific point of view and an understanding of the world," funk their job of making good citizens. High-school youth, said the report, is "hardboiled" about democracy and freedom "and inadequately prepared to do what is required to preserve either...