Ini dia hari pertama petualangan menaklukan Advanced English Vocabulary dari buku 1100 Words nya Murray Bromberg, Baron Educational Series. Sumber Bacaan 1st Week – 1st Day A youngster who reads voraciously, though indiscriminately, does not necessarily gain wisdom over teenagers who are more selective in their reading choices. A young man who has read the …
Many different methods have been developed over the years to help us increase the number of words we know. some have said we should read as much as we can, write down all the words we do not know, and then look them up in a dictionary. Other systems is involve writing down and memorizing …
Berawal dari lirik lagu A Whole New World : Soaring tumbling freewheeling through an endless diamond sky…. Jadi aja buka kamus karena belum ngerti juga “freewheeling” itu apa? Ternyata, freewheeling is a device that allows a bicycle wheel to revolve forward while the crank is stationary. buka kamus lagi, crank artinya engkol, putaran, atau orang …
The baseball strike of 1994-95, which kept the public from seeing the annual World Series, was not a typical labor dispute in which low-paid workers try to persuade their employers to grant a raise above their minimum wage. On the contrary, players who earned millions of dollars yearly, who were visible on TV commercials, drove …
I like to bet on anything that is exciting, so when my friends tried to tempt me with an offer, I took it. The idea was for me to spend a frigid December night in a cemetery, all alone, in order to win twenty dollars. Little did I realize that they would use dirty tricks …
The story of Sir Walter Raleigh, who spread his cloak on the ground to keep Queen Elizabeth from the hardship of crossing a muddy puddle, can qualify that nobleman for an award as a man of tact and good breeding. My brother Kenny, a bachelor with a keen interest in history, was impressed by that …
Perhaps you read about our school in the newspaper? We were one of the first to have showdown on the topic of long hair for boys. Two honor students, Ron Harris and Len Chester, were sent to the principal by their French teacher, an implacable foe of non-conformist, who went into a paroxysm of anger …
I guess we’ll never be able to quell those persistent rumors about the invention of auto tires which will never wear out, stocking which cannot tear, and pens which won’t run dry. A voluble economist informed me that such products will never be marketed. “Can you imagine,” he asked, “a manufacturer cutting his own throat?” …
Speaking of invention and discoveries, I just learned that an eminent scientist in Ohio has developed a pill which contain all nutritive value of three complete meals. In addition to providing us with the vitamin and minerals we need daily, this pill also gives a feeling of fullness. According to its sponsors, the pill will …
My buddy Verne, a precocious automotive wizard, and I were inspired to do some inventing in our town. We thought it might be feasible to park a car parallel to a space on the street. Then, by pressing a button, we could raise the four tires off the ground slightly while dropping two unique wheels …