Applied Secretarial Practise

Something reminded me of the “Applied Secretarial Practise” book I got 10 or 20 years ago. It is not at all useful for shorthand, though there are some “motivating” paragraphs in shorthand near the end from which I did pick up the useful phrase “as far as” s-f-s which was not in my phrase book….

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Kit Carson

This is an short account of the fascinating life of Kit Carson, one of the most important figures in the westward expansion of the United States, written by American author, naturalist, and botanist Donald Culross Peattie. I transcribed it for the blog in Centennial Gregg. Attachment: kit-carson.pdf

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The Grand Peak

Rising 14,115 feet above sea level, Pikes Peak is about 12 miles west of Colorado Springs, and is the highest mountain in the southern Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Named after American explorer Zebulon Pike, here is the story of the first American sighting of the mountain, transcribed in Simplified Gregg by me for…

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