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...Inventor Read stoutly asserts that "earnest practice for a single week enables one to write with assurance if not with speed." But Read, now 74, took more than 15 years to work the alphabet out, with the help of some correspondence with Shaw before the old man died. In the new book's last note, Read closes with a good old-fashioned "good luck!" If he had really the courage of his convictions, he would simply have said...
...superintendent of the state reform school; the deputy Commissioner of Correction; Harold L. Goyette, the University Planning Officer; George W. Goethals, lecturer on Social Relations; Dana L. Farnsworth, Director of the University Health Services; Charles A. Janeway, professor of Pediatrics; and Christine M. Gibson, lecturer on Education and co-Inventor of Languages through Pictures...
...flints to 15 clams a pair. And to his astonishment, nobody seemed to care; they went right on buying his flints instead of the ones his competitor, Blug, was selling at the old price (until Blug began to give away tiger teeth too). Og is honored today as the inventor of the Premium and discoverer of the great Something-for-Nothing Syndrome...
...Moonglow, Hawkins' sax capers in a loose-jointed way that mirrors the musician's pleasure; in Think Deep, say, or When Day Is Done, the style remains as virile as ever, but the tone becomes even warmer and more open-throated-mellow in a manner that Saxophone Inventor Adolphe Sax (1814-94) would never have believed...
...have long made desperate attempts to keep cool. In the summer of A.D. 221, Roman Emperor Heliogabalus sent i.ooo slaves into the mountains for snow to cool his gardens. Sweltering men have produced bizarre notions too: one 19th century inventor drew a fanciful suit of Venetian blinds, including a Venetian-blind hat. Various theaters and the Hungarian Parliament tried blowing air over massive amounts...