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downward spiral. The result was drastically falling output and drastically rising unemployment;

by 1932, the United States‘ manufacturing output had fallen to 54 percent of its 1929 level, and unemployment had risen to between 12 and 15 million workers, or 25-30 percent of the work force.

4. Curtis Publishing Co.: The Curtis Publishing Company, founded in 1891 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, became one of the largest and most influential publishers in the United States during the early 20th century. The company‘s publications included the Ladies’ Home Journal, The Saturday Evening Post, The American Home, Holiday, Jack & Jill and Country Gentleman. In the 1940s, Curtis also had a comic book imprint, Novelty Press. The company was formed by publisher Cyrus Curtis, who published the People’s Ledger, a news magazine he had begun in Boston in 1872 and moved to Philadelphia in 1876. He had also established the Tribune and Farmer in 1879, from the women‘s section of which he fashioned the Ladies’ Home Journal under the editorship of his wife, Louisa Knapp in 1883. These publications were taken under the imprimatur of the new company. In 1897, Curtis spent $1,000 to buy The Saturday Evening Post, The advent of television in the late 1940s and early 1950s encroached upon the popularity of general interest periodicals like the Post and the Journal, and in March, 1962, Curtis Publishing‘s president Robert A. MacNeal announced that the company had lost money for the first time since its incorporation, more than 70 years before. In 1968, Curtis Publishing sold the Ladies’ Home Journal, along with The American Home, to Downe Communications for $5.4 million in stock. Curtis sold The Saturday Evening Post, the last of its magazines, in 1982.

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1. Many parents who were hardly more than paupers still believed their sons could do

it. (Para. 1): Many parents who were no better than beggars still held the hope that their

sons could grow up to be presidents.

hardly (adv.): You use hardly to modify a statement when you want to emphasize that it is

only a small amount or detail which makes it true, and that therefore it is best to consider the opposite statement as being true.

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2. Many a grandfather who walked among us could remember Lincoln?s time. (Para. 1):

Many old people who were old enough to be the generation of our grandfathers and were

still alive could remember the time when Lincoln was president.

many a: You use many followed by ?a‘ and a noun to emphasize that there are a lot of

people or things involved in sth.

e.g. (1) Many a mother tries to act out her unrealized dreams through her daughter. (2) Many a good man has been destroyed by drink.

3. An elderly uncle, having posed the usual question and exposed my lack of interest in

the presidency, asked, “Well, what do you want to be when you grow up?” (Para. 2):

An elderly uncle found me uninterested in being president after asking the same question that was frequently asked by others. Then he asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.

v.): ask a question especially one that needs serious thought pose (e.g. When I finally posed the question, “Why?”, he merely shrugged.

expose (v.) show sth. that is usually hidden

e.g. He did not want to expose his fears and insecurity to anyone.

4. My uncle smiled, but my mother had seen the first distressing evidence of a bump

budding on a log. “Have a little gumption, Russell,” she said. Her calling me Russell was

a signal of unhappiness. When she approved of me I was always “Buddy.” (Para. 4): After answering my uncle‘s question, he smiled, but my mother sensed a symptom of the lack of ambition on me. So she told me to be ambitious. When she called me ―Russell‖, it indicated that she was unhappy. When she praised me, she usually called me ―Buddy.‖

5. When I turned eight years old she decided that the job of starting me on the road

towards making something of myself could no longer be safely delayed. (Para. 5):

When I was eight years old, my mother realized it was high time for me to do some job, which was the preparation for my future success. She couldn‘t allow me to lose the chance by living idly any more.

make something of oneself: be successful in one‘s life

Now that he is determined to make something of himself and he will certainly want to win as a fighter.

6.

When I burst in that afternoon she was in conference in the parlor with an executive

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of the Curtis Publishing Company. (Para. 6): When I got back home that afternoon, my mother was in a conversation with an executive of the Curtis Publishing Company.

conference (n.): a meeting at which formal discussions take place; discussion, consultation

e.g. (1) They sat down at the dinner table, as they always did before the meal, for a

conference. (2) Her employer was in conference with two lawyers and did not want to be interrupted.

7. “But have you got the grit, the character, the never-say-quit spirit it takes to succeed

in business?” (Para. 9): ―If you want to be successful in business, you must have the

personalities like courage, strength of character and determination of never stopping.‖

n.): the determination and courage to continue to do sth.

grit (e.g. If they gave gold medals for grit, she would be right up there on the winners’ podium.

8. He eyed me silently for a long pause, as though weighing whether I could be trusted

to keep his confidence, then spoke man-to-man. (Para. 12): He looked at me without

speaking for a long time as if he was wondering about whether I was worth of being trusted. Then he began to talk with me seriously.

a man-to-man conversation or meeting takes place between two men,

man-to-man:especially two men who meet to discuss a serious personal matter

e.g. (1) He called me to his office for a man-to-man talk.

(2) John and Peter had a man-to-man talk about the problem of their quarrel.

9. My mother said everyone in our house had heard of the Saturday Post and that, I,

in fact, read it with religious devotion. (Para. 13): My mother said that everyone of our family was familiar with the Saturday Post. What‘s more, she said that I was the most faithful reader of it. (In fact my mother was unfamiliar with the magazine for she mistakenly called it as the Saturday Post instead of the Saturday Evening Post.)

10. He showed me how to drape the sling over my left shoulder and across the chest so

that the pouch lay easily accessible to my right hand, allowing the best in journalism,

fiction, and cartoons to be swiftly extracted and sold to a citizenry whose happiness and security depended upon us soldiers of the free press. (Para. 15): He made a demonstration of the right way to handle the bag of magazines. Put the bag over my left

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shoulder and hung it across my chest so that I could easily reach out my right hand for the magazines that the customers liked best, such as the selected journalism, fiction and cartoons. As to those citizens, we were just like soldiers because our magazines were closely related to their happiness and security.

drape (v.): hang clothes, materials, etc. loosely on sb./sth. e.g. I’ll drape this coat around your shoulders to keep you warm. citizenry (n.): the body of citizens of a state or country

e.g. (1) To love the country is to love its citizenry. This is fundamental.

(2) To make our citizenry more aware in general knowledge and current affairs will take time and sustained efforts.

11. It was 1932, the bleakest year of the Depression. (Para. 17): It was in 1932 that the

Depression seemed to be the most severe.

(a.): not hopeful or encouraging; cold and unpleasant

bleake.g. (1) After the crash of his business, the future was extremely bleak; nevertheless, he looked it in the face. (2) The weather can be quite bleak on the coast.

12. As a salesman for a soft-drink bottler in Newark, he had an income of $30 a week;

wore pearl-gray spats, detachable collars, and a three-piece suit; was happily married; and took in threadbare relatives. (Para. 17): My uncle worked as a salesman to sell soft-drink bottler in Newark with an income of $30 a week. He was usually wearing light gray covering over his shoes, the collars that could be taken off and three-piece suit. He got married and led a happy life. It was he who allowed us, his poor relatives, to stay with him.

detachable (a.): that can be taken off

e.g. There is a delicate cake tin with a detachable base.

: allow someone to stay in your house or country, especially when they are homeless

take inor in trouble.

e.g. The monastery has taken in 26 refugees.

(a.): old and thin because it has been used a lot

threadbaree.g. She sat cross-legged on a square of threadbare carpet.

13. Uncle Allen intervened. “I?ve been thinking about it for some time,” he said, “and

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I?ve about decided to take the Post regularly. Put me down as a regular customer.” I handed him a magazine and he paid me a nickel. It was the first nickel I earned. (Para. 28): Uncle Allen interrupted and said he had thought about this for a long time and now decided to be a regular customer of mine. He bought a magazine which was the first I sold.

intervene(v.): interrupt sb. when they are speaking; become involved in a situation in order

to improve or help

e.g. (1) Cathy intervened and told us to stop the discussion and summarize the results for

a report. (2) Do not intervene in the affairs of another country.

14. Afterwards my mother instructed me in salesmanship. I would have to ring doorbells,

address adults with charming self-confidence, and break down resistance with a sales talk pointing out that no one, no matter how poor, could afford to be without the Saturday Evening Post in the home. (Para. 29): Since then, my mother taught me some skills in selling magazines. She told me that I could ring doorbells and then greeted the adults with complete self-confidence that might impress them deeply. In order to make them find no way to refuse me, my mother told me that I had to assure them that it would be a great loss if they hadn‘t bought the Saturday Evening Post, no matter how poor they were.

(n.): skill in selling

salesmanshipe.g. (1) I was finally captured by his brilliant salesmanship and bought some products he advised to me strongly. (2) We want to invite you to give a talk on international salesmanship to students majoring in International Business.

15. “If you think I?m going to raise a good-for-nothing,” she replied, “you?ve got another

think coming.” (Para. 31): ―If you think I‘m going to bring you up to be lazy and useless,‖ she answered, ―you are wrong in thinking that.‖

good-for-nothing: a person who is lazy or irresponsible and has no skills.

e.g. She is really disappointed with her good-for-nothing fourteen-year-old son who barely knows eating the bread of idleness.

16. The one I most despised was, “If at first you don?t succeed, try, try again.” This was the

battle cry with which she constantly sent me back into the hopeless struggle whenever I