State College News 1962-10-12
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With today 's entry I begin my ninth year oi writing columns in your school newspaper for the makers oi Marlboro Cigarettes. Nine years, I believe you will agree, is a long time. In fact, it took only a little longer than nine years to dig the Suez Canal , and you know what a gigantic under taking t h a t was! To be sure, the work would have gone more rapidly had the shovel been invented at that time, but, as we all know, the shovel was not invented until 1946 by Walter R. -hovel of Cleveland, Ohio. Before Mr. Shovel's discovery in 1946, all digging was done with sugar tongs—a method unquestionably dainty but hardly what one would call rapid. There were, naturally, many efforts made to speed u p digging before Mr. Shovel's b r e a k t h r o u g h n o t a b l y an a t tempt in 1912 by the immortal Thomas Alva Edison to dig with the phonograph, but the only thing tha t happened was tha t he got his horn full of sand. This so depressed Mr. Edison that he fell into a fit of melancholy from which he did not emerge until two years later when his friend William Wordsworth, the eminent nature poet, cheered him up by imitat ing a duck for four and a half hours.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009