Word: clearers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stops, called "fixation pauses." Each fixation takes about one-quarter of a second. In moving from one fixation to another, the eye makes a quick jerk which takes only about 15 thousandths of a second. The eye often moves backward toward the beginning of the line to get a clearer view of the material or to reread it. These are called regressions and occur about ten times per 100 words. The interfixation moves--the jerks between words as well as the return sweep after each line is finished--take only six per cent of the total reading time, while...
...future of the on-again-off-again Harvard baseball team will become much clearer this weekend after the Crimson takes on Eastern League opponents Cornell and Pennsylvania...
...leap into the jet age, C.A.L.'s coffers were filled chiefly by the wages of war. Charter work in Viet Nam uses 19 of its aircraft, and China Air pilots have been shot at by Red Chinese, Pathet Lao and Viet Cong. Admitting that he has no clearer picture of the Viet Nam war than anyone else, 55-year-old President Ben Y.C. Chow, a former Chinese-air-force lieutenant general who retired in 1964 to take the controls at C.A.L., is nevertheless planning for a more peaceful future. "Everything we've made has gone into...
...illusion of individual outs, win large numbers of people to action that will solidify divided groups. We should organize against class rank and draft tests not because this will save people individually, a clear illusion, but because in such a fight we can unify ourselves as students, become clearer about the nature of the war, prepare ourselves to fight against the government's policies from a stronger position...
...future of the Federation is sure to become clearer in the weeks ahead, however, as it moves toward its first official contact with the University. Most of the Feb. 15 meeting took place under two words which were scrawled on the Burr A blackboard during the first minutes of discussion: "Fairness" and "Effectiveness." If the Federation can resolve the two to the satisfaction of most of Harvard's teaching fellows, the unhappy TF's may at last have found the voice they want