Word: funking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First, "Birth Control" as commonly understood (indeed as defined by Funk and Wagnalls) connotes the use of artificial means to prevent either conception or birth. Birth-prevention, or abortion, is legally equivalent to murder. Conception-prevention is but a subtler means to the same end. Both forms of birth control employ unnatural means, and hence are against...
Dictionary Publisher Adam Wagnalls (born Wagenhals) of Funk & Wagnalls was born in' Lithopolis in 1843. When daughter Mabel Wagnalls Jones died two years ago, in Manhattan, she left most of her estate to the little town. Last week tax appraisers finally put a price tag on her unusual bequest. The money hadn't been left to the citizens themselves (though several tried to collect their "share"), but to the Wagnalls Memorial...
...moving issues affecting Berlin's fate barely penetrated. Endless have been the battles over the seven Nazi war criminals jailed in the great red brick fortress of Spandau, in the British sector. Should butter patties be given to prisoners dangerously losing weight? Shall ex-Reichs-bank President Walther Funk's kidneys be operated on inside the prison or in a hospital outside...
...Funk Money. Worried by the flood of "funk money" (i.e., fear money) flowing from Britain and other sterling areas (one recent report listed $270,000,000 in foreign bills discounted), South Africa clamped down. The government ordered commercial banks to refuse all large deposits from overseas unless the money was for investment in South Africa...
Hour exams, term papers, and the validity of the University's testing system will receive the opening dig of a current Council probe tonight at 9:45 o'clock when Richard L. Hanford '49, chairman of the Council sub-committee on hour exams, and his cohorts, Sherman M. Funk '50 and Warren G. Vander Mass '48 discuss the problem over WHRV...