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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 events 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    and 1976 (partial) An early history of The Atlantic from The Literary Digest (1897) Atlantic Monthly records, at the University of Maryland libraries...
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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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    View from inside the defensive works. Edward Jewitt Wheeler; Isaac Kaufman Funk; William Seaver Woods (1900). The Literary Digest. pp. 68–69. Imperial...
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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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    Irra Petina (category White Russian emigrants to the United States)
    pronounce her name, she told The Literary Digest the first syllable should be stressed: PEH-ti-na. (Charles Earle Funk, What's the Name, Please?, Funk & Wagnalls...
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    Louis Pasteur (category Recipients of the Order of the Medjidie, 1st class)
    life. The Literary Digest of 18 October 1902 gives this statement from Pasteur that he prayed while he worked: Posterity will one day laugh at the foolishness...
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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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    gathering that included the writers Olivia Manning and J. G. Farrell. Asked how to say his name, he told the Literary Digest it was "pronounced jer (as...
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    by a large margin. The result was the exact opposite. The Literary Digest survey represented a sample collected from readers of the magazine, supplemented...
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    Herriman's strip Stumble Inn). Asked how to say his name, he told The Literary Digest it was "SEE-gar". He commonly signed his work simply Segar or E....
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    edition of The Literary Digest, which referred to the painting as a "pictorial translation of the novel". Initially intended for the museum in Lyon,...
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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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