Word: funked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barn Dance goes on the air at 7 p.m. (C.S.T.), is sponsored in pieces of 15 minutes and more by Alka-Seltzer, Keystone Steel & Wire Co. (fences), Murphy Products Co. (poultry and livestock feeds), Woodmen Accident Co. (insurance), Edward Funk & Sons (hybrid seed corn...
Northwestern's famed Psychologist Robert H. Seashore and Miss Lois D. Eckerson had worked seven years devising and polishing a vocabulary test. They took a scientific sample, 1,.320 words from the 450,000 Funk & Wagnalls' unabridged dictionary. Their test: to choose from several given possibilities the right definition for each word. They gave their test to more than 500 college students...
Findings: > An average student recognized* (or correctly guessed) about 60,000 common words, 1,500 rare words, 95,000 derivatives, compounds, etc. Total average vocabulary: 156,000 of Funk & Wagnalls' 450,000 words...
...subordinates figure out how. He has put the ablest men obtainable into his Economics Ministry, lets them work out plans which he either accepts or discards. For a while he used Dr. Schacht as idea man, then replaced him with the scarcely more radical Dr. Walther Funk. To replace Horace Greeley Hjalmar Schacht as international salesman of German economy was more difficult, but Göring found his man in the persuasive Dr. Karl Clodius, who was in Bucharest trying to talk more oil and foodstuffs out of the Rumanians...
...second annual meeting, the Mother-in-Law Association of Saks Thirty-Fourth Street, Manhattan department store, gave four judges-Publisher Wilfred Funk, Actress Helen Hayes's mother Catherine Hayes Brown, Singer Lanny Ross, Quizzer Craig ("Professor Quiz") Earl-the task of choosing a word to replace "mother-in-law." Several hundred entries, including Motherette, Mother Rat, Ersatz Mother, Blitzkrieg Mother, Mother-link, were discarded in favor of "Kin-Mother." Commented Lexicographer Funk: "These synthetic words . . . seldom catch on." "Kin-Mother" did not catch on in Amarillo, Tex., where next day Kin-Mother Mrs. L. O. Thompson, first president...