In the early days of opinion polling, the American Literary Digest magazine collected over two million postal surveys and predicted that the Republican candidate in the U. S. presidential election, Alf Landon, would beat the incumbent president, Franklin Roosevelt by a large margin.

) Both Literary Digest and the popular humor magazine Life ( 1890 – 1930 ) ran compilations of jokes and humorous observations garnered from newspapers around the country.

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 Gentleman, Leslie's Weekly, Judge, Peoples Popular Monthly and Life Magazine.

Irene was Rockwell's model in Mother Tucking Children into Bed, published on the cover of The Literary Digest on January 19, 1921.

Asked how to say his name, he told The Literary Digest it was YER-keez.

Kilmer also wrote book reviews for The Literary Digest, Town & Country, The Nation, and The New York Times.

Asked how to pronounce his name, he told The Literary Digest, " In English, her ' sholt ; in Danish, hairs ' hult.

This was in direct contradiction to the widely respected Literary Digest magazine whose poll based on over two million returned questionnaires predicted that Landon would be the winner.

Not only did Gallup get the election right, he correctly predicted the results of the Literary Digest poll as well using a random sample smaller than theirs but chosen to match it.

In 1914, according to Literary Digest Magazine, Carmen originated a " Take It Back Day ," when neighbors would return anything they had borrowed over the last year.

In the wake of this, according to the November 25, 1911 issue of Literary Digest, Coleman Livingston Blease, the governor of South Carolina, declared that, rather than stop a lynch mob, he would " have resigned his office and come to Honea Path and led the mob.

Asked how to pronounce her surname, she told the Literary Digest she preferred the French way, but " If the French is too difficult for American consumption, both syllables should be equally accented, and the a should be more or less broad ": fon-tahn.

Asked how to say his name, he told The Literary Digest " as though it were spelled pin ' cho, with slight emphasis on the first syllable.

The publication of The Literary Digest in 1890 marked a shift to publishing of general reference dictionaries and encyclopedias.

* 1890 – The Literary Digest

Funk & Wagnalls Company published The Literary Digest, The Standard Dictionary of the English Language, and Funk & Wagnalls Standard Encyclopedia,

In that same year, Funk published The Literary Digest, a departure from the religious works earlier in his career.

He told The Literary Digest: " The name is a Dutch word meaning ' Land of Beacons.

In 1916, the Literary Digest embarked on a national survey ( partly as a circulation-raising exercise ) and correctly predicted Woodrow Wilson's election as president.

The Literary Digest was ignorant of this new bias.

The Literary Digest soon went out of business, while polling started to take off.

Another source of error is the use of samples that are not representative of the population as a consequence of the methodology used, as was the experience of the Literary Digest in 1936.

Asked how to pronounce his surname, he told The Literary Digest: " Pronounced as if it were spelled bruff.

Asked how to say his name, he told the Literary Digest that in America it was po-GAH-ny.

* History as a Literary Weapon: The Gospel of Barnabas in Muslim-Christian Polemics Oddbjørn Leirvik: a historical survey of both Christian and Islamic perspectives.

His The Pursuit of the Millennium was ranked as one of the 100 most influential books of the 20th century in a survey conducted by the Times Literary Supplement.

Smith's literary estate is represented by his stepson, Prof William Dorman, director of CASiana Literary Enterprises.

Student are represented on the College Council by the leaders of the Literary and Athletic Society and eight additional students.

He is currently represented by the Hong Kong based Peony Literary Agency

His works, including Logan's Run, are currently represented on his behalf by WBMT Literary, Film and Television.

This gable is a memorial to the Gaelic Literary tradition from the 13th-18th century as represented by the O ' Duigenans, hereditary erenachs of Kilronan ( lay abbots who held church land from generation to generation ), and chroniclers ( as well as bards and ollavs-hereditary poets ) to the MacDermots, Princes of Moylurg, down to Turlough O ' Carolan, sometimes styled " The Last of the Bards ".

The Easton Press is represented by the Scott Meredith Literary Agency.

His literary properties were for a time represented by Mollie Glick at the Jean Naggar Literary Agency in New York, NY.

George Gallup's American Institute of Public Opinion achieved national recognition by correctly predicting the result of the election, and for correctly predicting the results of the Literary Digest poll to within about 1 %, using a smaller sample size of 50, 000.

Much of his collected work was damaged during the bombing of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society on 24 December 1940.

" His nonfiction anthologies, which collected essays by himself and others on everyday aspects of gay and lesbian life, won him the Lambda Literary Award and the American Library Association's Stonewall Book Award.

* Literary essays collected under the titles Kritische Gänge and Altes und Neues

These columns were collected into a series of books: Let's Parler Franglais, Let's Parler Franglais Again !, Parlez-vous Franglais ?, Let's Parler Franglais One More Temps, The Franglais Lieutenant's Woman and Other Literary Masterpieces.

Cunningham contributed some songs to Roche's Literary Recreations in 1807, and in 1809 he collected old ballads for Robert Hartley Cromek's Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song ; he sent in, however, poems of his own, which the editor inserted, even though he may have suspected their real authorship.

His collected contributions to literary periodicals appeared in 1890 under the title Essays and Studies Educational and Literary.

One collected edition of Literary Life cartoons has been published.

Residing afterwards for some years at Batheaston he collected a series of rocks and fossils which he presented to the Literary and Scientific Institution of Bath.

In 1817 his first essay on phrenology was published in The Scots Magazine ; and a series of papers on the same subject appeared soon afterwards in the Literary and Statistical Magazine ; these were collected and published in 1819 in book form as Essays on Phrenology, which in later editions became A System of Phrenology.