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    The Literary Digest was an American general interest weekly magazine published by Funk & Wagnalls. Founded by Isaac Kaufmann Funk in 1890, it eventually...
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    1936 United States presidential election (category November 1936 in the United States)
    in The American Statistician demonstrates that the actual reason for the error was that the Literary Digest relied on voluntary responses. As the article...
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  • name of the drug Lansoprazole The Literary Digest Architectural Digest Writer's Digest Reader's Digest Baseball Digest Gun Digest Golf Digest Consumers...
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    in the Gallup poll, the Literary Digest poll failed primarily due to non-response bias (Roosevelt won 69 percent of Literary Digest readers who did not...
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  • religious books. The publication of The Literary Digest in 1890 marked a shift to publishing of general reference dictionaries and encyclopedias. The firm published...
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    she told The Literary Digest in 1936: "My fake name is properly pronounced vor'shack. The D remains silent. I have had quite a time with the name, having...
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    exist elsewhere, the cause of the Venzone mummies' preservation in particular still remains a mystery. In 1906, The Literary Digest translated portions...
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    Jean Hersholt (category Knights of the Order of the Dannebrog)
    co-starred with Shirley Temple in the film Heidi (1937). When asked how to pronounce his name, he told The Literary Digest, "in English her'sholt; in Danish...
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    out millions of postcards and simply counting the returns, The Literary Digest also correctly predicted the victories of Warren Harding in 1920, Calvin...
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    Norman Rockwell (category Culture of the United States)
    promotion of the art. Rockwell's success on the cover of the Post led to covers for other magazines of the day, most notably the Literary Digest, the Country...
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    Young (1840–1909)". The Manitoba Historical Society. Retrieved January 7, 2014. "Is Jack London a Plagiarist?". The Literary Digest. 34: 337. 1907. Kingman...
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    Gene Sarazen (category Ryder Cup competitors for the United States)
    to say his name, he told the Literary Digest "Veteran Gene Sarazen/ Aims to play par again". (Charles Earle Funk, What's the Name, Please?, Funk & Wagnalls...
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    Christian anarchist writer Elbert Hubbard in 1909 in Literary Digest, reads: "A genius is a man who takes the lemons that Fate hands him and starts a lemonade-stand...
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    O Captain! My Captain! (category Works about the American Civil War)
    "My Captain" became "the nation's—aye, the world's—funeral dirge of our First American". The Literary Digest in 1919 deemed it the "most likely to live...
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    issue of The Literary Digest mentioned that "The shores are inhabited by septs […] which preserve a clannish allegiance to one another, but the islands...
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    Josef Lhévinne (category Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States)
    Playing. Asked how to say his name, he told The Literary Digest it was lay-VEEN. Joseph Arkadievich Levin (the name was altered in western Europe by a manager...
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    Frank R. Stockton (category Burials at The Woodlands Cemetery)
    Frank R. Stockton," The Book-Lover, Vol. IV, N°. 4, September/October 1903. "Frank R. Stockton's Method of Work," The Literary Digest, May 7, 1898. Golemba...
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  • to strengthen the ideology of Pakistan and promoting national integration. Urdu Digest publishes translations of international literary stories, adventure...
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    Packard (category Defunct aircraft engine manufacturers of the United States)
    at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved September 16, 2013. The Literary Digest November 14, 1931; Old Car Advertising Archived August 9, 2016, at the Wayback...
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    Time. Apr 11, 1932. Retrieved 11 July 2010. Literary Digest, 16 April 1932 Archived 3 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine "Radium Cures". Museum of Quackery...
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    the American electorate reflected in just 50,000 more selectively chosen respondents. He also correctly predicted the results of the Literary Digest poll...
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    "The Future of Constantinople"". The Conradian. 31 (2): 15–27. ISSN 0951-2314. JSTOR 20873573. "Constantinople as a Free City". The Literary Digest. 71...
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    the Literary Digest and The New York Times. Its literary debut in a magazine for adults led the public to understand it as adult fiction; the book was marketed...
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    Isaac K. Funk (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Encyclopedia Americana with a Wikisource reference)
    published The Literary Digest, The Standard Dictionary of the English Language, and Funk & Wagnalls Standard Encyclopedia. Funk was born in 1839 in the village...
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    Jazz Age (redirect from The Jazz Age)
    Houghton Line 1919, pp. 6, 9; Literary Digest 1919, p. 31. Berg 1978, p. 217; Henderson 2013. Cooke 1998, p. 52: "The popularity of new dance styles...
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  • Wilfred J. Funk (category Reader's Digest)
    chief of Funk & Wagnalls' magazine The Literary Digest. The Digest polled its readers regarding the outcome of the 1936 presidential election, and put...
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  • Edward Andrade (category Fellows of the Royal Society)
    and poet. He told The Literary Digest his name was pronounced "as written, i.e., like air raid, with and substituted for air." In the scientific world...
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  • The Literary Digest Poll: Making of a Statistical Myth’ The American Statistician, 30(4):November 1976 Squire, Peverill “Why the 1936 Literary Digest...
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    The New Republic (1922) His difficulty with his father: Current Literature Magazine, 1912 The exiled Crown Prince in Holland: The Literary Digest, 1919...
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  • acid touch of superiority." Another contemporary review in The Literary Digest says, "The book is lacking in what we are constantly told is necessary...
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