Word: distractedness
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And, in the same issue, Sports Illustrated registers alarm that Johns Hopkins thinks there are things more important than football. Despite de-emphasis, the Hopkins' eleven was 7-1 a year ago, but the student body, distracted by Maryland and Navy football, the Baltimore Colts, and soccer, is not very...
The eyes of easily distracted average readers regress eight to eleven times per 100 words. Teacher Wood's beginning students curb this tendency by running their fingers under each line, then every other line, until they learn the "whirlaway motion"-a series of circular sweeps down the middle of...
Then tiny (5 ft., 89 lbs.) Handler Clara Alford, 51, went to work on Chik T'Sun (she calls him Gossie for short). A pair of round-eyed Chihuahuas, led by a tweedy woman, minced past on the urine-spattered floor, each bearing on its back a tiny knapsack...
Good, hard, tough reporting is what serious Scotty Reston means to keep on trying to give to the public."The 19th century," he says, "was the era of the novelist. The 20th is the era of the journalist. A distracted people, busy with the fierce competitions of modern life, must...
The article explaining the excessive rate of failure of the male students of the University of Karachi, Pakistan as resulting from their being distracted by women students [Oct. 26] is a grotesque oversimplification of a serious problem. There are several reasons for the poor performance of the university students of...