Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just before the play was to begin, the Sealyham shot after a fat biddy with blood in his eye. The idea spread to the five Scotties, and in a few seconds hens were clucking all about the stage looking for shelter...
...dominant note of the book is contained in the curious and eye-catching title. It is the story of the awakening of the peasant from his long sleep of ignorance and superstition and the clumsiness with which they have tried to grasp hold of their new and streamlined life. Mr. Duranty often has an amused smile on his lips when he tells of the strange effects which the attempts to adapt themselves to their boss comrades' ideas of civilization have on these simple people, but he is gentle with them throughout and never sharply satirical...
...estimated 85% of what modern man learns is taken in by eye, most of it by reading. Despite radio's rise, the function of reading is growing. Since the turn of the Century U. S. publications for the adult have grown 170%, and more and more reading is necessary to make a living. Today a private secretary has to do some 500% more reading than in 1900. Because inefficient reading is responsible for 60% of all failures in school, $612 of every $1,000 spent for primary schooling is spent to teach reading. Yet one-half the adult population...
...Reading eyes do not move continuously from left to right. They hop. The number of words they grasp in one hop is called the span of recognition. This span for the average efficient college reader is 1.2 words; a very few persons can grasp as many as five or six words at once. At the end of the hop there is a pause, while the words register on the brain; 94% of reading time is spent in these "fixations." Sometimes the eye goes back over words it has already scanned. These are regressions. To read rapidly it is necessary...
First step in Dr. Center's clinic is to measure hops, fixations and regressions with an ophthalmograph. which takes motion pictures of a reader's eye movements. The resulting picture looks like sets of stairs, recording the eye's stops and jerks. If the reader is efficient, the stairs are regular...