Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that a substantial upturn during the summer and fall will lift starts to a 1967 total of 1,300,000, as against 1,220,000 in 1966. Such optimism is based mainly on the Government's sharp switch toward easier credit. Interest rates on home mortgages have dropped faster than in any recent period in Federal Reserve records. Eastern investors who demanded a 6.6% and 6.7% return on their money last fall are now snapping up loans at 6%, and a few of them are willing to take as little as 5.9%, according to mortgage brokers. As a result...
...Experts have tried to tell her that it's impossible. But that's no use, because she reads the same way, only faster-probably column three by now. And she knows it can be learned, because she taught herself. She counters the pessimistic research by maintaining that bad reading habits are artificially ingrained in students when they are first taught to read, that they are not natural limitations...
...middle fifties walked into a crowded basement room of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. She walked to the front of the room, smiled a pleasant motherly smile and said "My name is Evelyn Wood. I've come all the way from Utah to teach you to read faster than you've ever dreamed possible...
...reading instruction in America stressed accurate oral reading almost exclusively. The good reader was the pupil who could sight read aloud with expression and fluency. Then experimenters at the University of Chicago demonstrated what appears obvious today: by the fourth grade most students can read silently faster than orally. They proved, furthermore, that comprehension and retention is significantly better after silent reading...
...taught Harvard's reading course more than anybody else in the past five years, "It is like teaching somebody to ride a bicycle. It is perfectly easy to tell him what is done, but you cannot train a sense of balance.... The pupil says 'teach me to read faster,' but I can't grab hold of his eyeballs and wiggle them for him. You are trying to tell the average guy about something which is highly idiosyncratic. It is here that I begin to think to teach is an intransitive verb...