67 research outputs found
The Listmaker
Get PDFI have a habit of making up lists. My very first list, which I wrote in first grade, was a list of all lists I wanted to make in the future. That list began with my second list, which was called a list of my very first list . My third list came next, but I lost it soon after I made it. My fourth was a list of lists I\u27d lost. My fifth was a list of things that might have been on my third list
Nobody\u27s News
Get PDFA few blocks form here, there lived a man named Nobody. He used to have a normal first, middle, and last name, but he officially changed all three to just one word, Nobody. When anyone asked him why, he said I\u27m a nobody, like billions of other people in the world, but they\u27re afraid to admit it
The Internal Combustion Typewriter
Get PDFWhen I started grade school in the 1950s, there was a sense of excitement in the air. Television had entered the homes of many Americans, and with it the desire to bring the world into the future. My third grade music teacher, Mr. Underwood, was a typist and an inventor. By day, he taught piano, and by night he typed up ideas for his inventions. One night, he realized that he could come up with many more ideas if he could type faster
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