Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These are test rates only. The average student reads 1 1/2 to 3 times faster than his ending test rates...
...dynamic reading 18 years ago when a professor at the University of Utah read her term paper at an amazing 6000 words a minute. Mrs. Wood's curiosity caused her to look for other exceptional readers, and over the next few years she found 50 people who could read faster than 1500 words per minute with fine comprehension, outstanding recall and great reading satisfaction...
...sure it was possible to read faster than anyone had thought, but the question of how was not yet answered. It took 8 years of toil and research working with naturally fast readers before she began to find the answers. Eventually she developed a technique where-by the average student was able to learn to read 3 to 10 times faster...
...read five times faster," she pointed out, "not by reading every fifth word but by reading five times as many words in the same amount of time." Mrs. Wood emphasized that using her technique of rapid reading, every word on the page is noted...
...nerves and aching eardrums that might be left behind by sonic boom. Resigned to it, airlines are planning either routes over water and desert or subsonic speeds over populated areas. Either solution could cut deeply into the time-distance economies that could otherwise be gained by flying huge planes faster than the speed of sound...