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I went for a walk in a park a few days ago. When I left the park, I noticed that my phone was gone. It had probably fallen out of my small jacket pocket. I walked around the park looking for it, but I never found it. Finally, I called my wife from a pay phone near the subway station and asked her to try calling my phone. I waited for five minutes and called back. She said that the phone was at a nearby police station. The police officer saw that I was able to open the phone and gave it back to me after checking my ID card. I just wish I could thank the kind person who found it! (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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Notes
biography 伝記;
definition 定義

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On April 15, 1755, a great book was published in London. It wasn’t a novel or a biography. It was a dictionary of the English language. These days, a dictionary is written by a group of people called editors, but Samuel Johnson basically wrote this dictionary by himself. He worked for more than 8 years and included over 42,000 words. He wrote a definition of each word, but then he found sentences of great English writers such as Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden to show how the words were used. For 150 years, Johnson’s dictionary was the number one dictionary of English. (by Prof. Douglas Jarrell)
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