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Word: funks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publicity bureau of Funk & Wagnalls, publishers of the Literary Digest, let it be known that Dr. Woods was not only the son of a Methodist minister but an ardent personal Dry, a fact to which his friends in New York and Washington who had vainly offered him drinks readily attested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Poll | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...Funk & Wagnalls also reminded people that the firm was long known as a "Prohibition house," that the late Dr. Isaac Kauffman Funk founded "Prohibition Park" as an amusement centre on Staten Island. His son Wilfred John Funk, now inactive president of the company, is also a personal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Poll | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...Houdinize-"to release or extricate oneself from confinement, bonds, etc." (Funk and Wagnall's dictionary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Houdini, Doyle | 3/31/1930 | See Source »

President Wilfred John Funk of Funk & Wagnalls (publishers of the Literary Digest) had a composition accepted by The New Yorker (weekly smartchart). The composition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 10, 1930 | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

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