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...summary: Harvard 1927 Choate Eby, Carden, Thomas, r.f. l.g., Tracy Eaton, l.f. r.g., Maher Leekley, de Ravignon, McCrum, c. c., Brown. Morrison Hesse, Lightbourn, r.g. l.f., Fullmer, Raymond Malick, l.g. r.f., Mullaney, Funk...
Petroleum producers and refiners are beginning to recover somewhat from their blue funk of recent months, and to foresee the day, not far distant, when the heavy stocks of crude oil now accumulated through overproduction can be materially decreased. Oil shares on the New York Stock Exchange have experienced a general recovery, and the price of crude petroleum in several fields is likewise showing a rising tendency...
Vexed, a municipal school superintendent applied to Mr. Wells a term defined by Messrs. Funk and Wagnalls as meaning "an obstinate or stupid person; a blockhead...
...Funk-Brentano of Paris is credited with the discovery of new methods of "twilight sleep" (painless childbirth) differing from the scopolanium method now widely in use. They consist of injections of extract from the pituitary gland (a small oval body attached to the brain near the optic nerve) combined with progressive doses of chloroform. The woman retains a degree of consciousness and speech, but is not aware of pain. Eight hundred deliveries have been made by these methods at the Boucicault Hospital...
Henry Ford: "Funk and Wagnalls published a biography of me by Allen L. Benson, once Socialist candidate for President. The author credits me with stating to him in Sept., 1922, that there would be another World War; that the U. S. should ' get into it at the beginning and clean them all up'; that the sudden cessation of my anti-Jew campaign was due to my sensing 'too much anti-semitic feeling.' Mr. Benson also says that apropos of nothing I pointed to one of my men and said: There is the kind of man I would appoint Secretary...