Word: funk
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...ENGLAND SLEPT-John F. Kennedy-Funk...
...early 1900s, Henry Clapp Sherman, now a professor at Columbia, discovered the value of minerals-iron, calcium, phosphorus. Then came the researches on vitamins, beginning with the discovery of a "vitamine" (B) by a Pole, Casimir Funk...
...commodity available to all by reducing them to a set of simple, exact rules. Today, at 67, Mrs. Post is still undisputed autocrat of U. S. etiquette. Mrs. Post has long had another ambition: to write a Blue Book for raising children. Last week it appeared: Children Are People (Funk & Wagnalls...
...hundred and twenty-seven years after it was prepared, Thomas Jefferson's personal 25,000-word abridgment of the Bible made its first public appearance last week under the title Jefferson chose for it, The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth (Wilfred Funk...
...series of articles on fifth-column activities in the U. S. that pulled together a good many facts on the size and tactics of subversive organizations, painted a picture that was scary but not altogether clear. Last week he turned out a book, The Fifth Column Is Here (Wilfred Funk; $1), that had all his old facts and a lot of new ones, made the picture just as scary but much clearer, and that outlined a U. S. defense against fifth-column hamstringing...