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The acquaintance''s comment suggested a piece of fun. The two men took the paper to a druggist and asked him to make it up. Without a moment''s hesitation the druggist took down a number of bottles, poured out some of the contents and put into a ...

한국경제 | 1996.12.03 00:00

The popular actor, connected with a local theater, was an exceptionally bad writer. One day a friend asked for a free pass for the stalls. The actor wrote out a slip, not one word of which was decipherable. The friend showed the pass to an acquai...

한국경제 | 1996.12.02 00:00

A little boy who had lost his father and whose widowed mother was having a difficult time making ends meet, wrote a letter: "Dear God : Will you please send my mother $100 because she is having a hard time?" The letter ended up in the General Pos...

한국경제 | 1996.11.05 00:00

After vainly writing several times for a check which had been promised as an advance on his royalties, O.Henry called on the cashier of a New York publishing house. "I''m sorry" explained the cashier, "but Mr. Blank who signs the checks is laid up ...

한국경제 | 1996.11.04 00:00

One day a man who had a very bad memory wanted to have a dinner party at his home. He told his servant to make ready for the party, and wrote invitations for a large number of his friends. The appointed evening came and everything was ready. But...

한국경제 | 1996.10.24 00:00

A business firm wrote to another corporation, saying, "Our electronic brain has computed that the cost of the work you want done will be..." The following reply was received a few days later: "As this is more than we anticipated, we would like to...

한국경제 | 1996.08.29 00:00

Rummaging among volumes in a secondhand bookstore, George Bernard Shaw encountered one of his own books and found that he had inscribed it, "TO X. With kind regards." He bought the book, wrote under the first inscription, "To X. With renewed rega...

한국경제 | 1996.08.26 00:00

Johnny''s teacher wrote to his mother : "Johnny is a bright boy, but he seems to spend all his time thinking about girls" Johnny''s mother wrote back to his teacher : "If you find a cure, let me know. I''m having the same trouble with his father...

한국경제 | 1996.05.08 00:00

[[[ 본사 특약 독점 전재 ]]] "인플레이션 시대는 끝났는가" 요즘 유럽 경제학계는 이같은 화두를 놓고 뜨거운 논쟁을 벌이고 있다. 논쟁을 불러일으킨 계기는 "인플레이션의 죽음"이란 이름의 한 경제서적 출간. 이 책의 저자는 홍콩상하이은행의 로저 부틀 수석경제연구원으로 유럽 금융가에서 화제의 인물로 떠올랐다. 그는 멀리 14세기까지 거슬러 올라가 보면 인플레이션을 당연한 경제현상 으로 받아들인 것은 2차세계대전 이후부터라고 지...

한국경제 | 1996.04.15 00:00

A complicated machine in a factory siopped working, Engineers strived desperately to locate the trouble, but all tailed. An expert who was called in tinkered with the machine briefly, tapped here and there with hammer, and the machine resumed ope...

한국경제 | 1996.03.06 00:00