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...Isaac Kauffman Funk and Dr. Adam Willis Wagnalls founded a weekly magazine called Literary Digest. In 1891 Dr. Albert Shaw founded a monthly magazine called Review of Reviews. Last week there was a wedding of the products of these venerable oldsters when Literary Digest was purchased by Review of Reviews for a reported...
...this belief is conveyed to him. A positive assurance made by the person in whom he has faith will usually effect a cure. A typical instance of this is described in the little booklet, "What You Should Know About Eyes," forming one of the National Health Series published by Funk & Wagnalls...
...half biography of Publisher Moses Louis ("Moe") Annenberg. Hearst's New York Journal, selling the same encyclopedia, has in its volumes no word of Mr. Annenberg or his career, but it has got a nice item devoted to the word "neotrist,"† which they hired Lexicographer Charles Earle Funk to coin for them to describe a typical Journal reader. Mr. Annenberg's books haven't got that...
...view of these denunciations, and with the erubescent qualities of certain tabloids in mind, we hope that Funk and Wagnalls have at last arrived at the proper analysis of Crimson when they say: "To make or become crimson, redden, blush." We are confident, however, of the accuracy of the following definition, which a prominent semanticist has assured us will fit any Harvard publication, "deep red tinged with blue." --The Radcliffe News...
Vague though the talk of "hot money" control was last week, brokers at home and abroad gave it the darkest interpretation. In London, where "hot money" is called "funk money" and any interference with international trading is deplored, a thoughtful broker declared: "It appears that Mr. Roosevelt once more is striving to achieve a reputable objective without regard to its effect on the world situation." In Wall Street a feeble attempt was made to brush the problem aside on the ground that part of what appeared to be foreign investment was in fact buying by U. S. citizens through foreign...