

Wilfred's son Peter Funk wrote the column from the 1960s to the 1990s. He presented his quiz idea to Dewitt Wallace in 1944. Word Power's creator, Wilfred Funk, was a poet and lexicographer-his family was the “Funk” of the reference publisher Funk & Wagnalls. Word Power first ran in January 1945-January 2020 will mark 75 years. Quotable Quotes is second to Laughter the Best Medicine in column popularity. It began as a one-page list of quotes and continues to be a one-page list of quotes. The column hasn't changed much, except for the art. We've quoted both living and dead people. The quotes were, and continue to be, collected from a variety of books, speeches, journals, and articles. These first columns featured the great minds of the day, including Herbert Hoover (before he became president), Lady Astor, and John D. It was proceeded by similar quote columns, including Remarkable Remarks, which ran in the first ever issue of Reader's Digest in February 1922, and Significant Sayings, which ran in June 1922. Quotable Quotes, as it appears today, first ran in January 1934. It will be a combination of 2 of our most popular columns in Reader’s Digest Magazine-Word Power and Quotable Quotes. Use Your Words is part word quiz book and part quote book, combined together in themed sections. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Want to feel smarter? Want to have the perfect quip at the tip of your tongue? Use Your Words combines Word Power Quizzes and Quotable Quotes from Reader's Digest, Amercia's Most Popular Magazine so you can do just that! Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic.

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