Word: manual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifteen new sets of films made over the summer will force slow readers, either too lazy or too afraid to improve, gradually to increase their reading speed, while the manual improves their comprehension proportionately...
Over 100 Freshmen appeared at the first meeting of the Remedial Reading Course yesterday and heard how they will speed up their reading over 200 words per minute during the next six weeks simply by watching motion pictures and reading from a manual compiled by S. Vincent Wilking, Bigelow Fellow and teacher of the course...
...will take historians years to reconstruct the Battle of Smolensk shot by shot. But it is already possible to reconstruct its general outlines. For the Russian plan of defense was based on a single document-a field manual designated as PU-36, which was drawn up in 1936 by Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, then Vice Commissar of Defense. It was his last great service to the Red Army. He was executed in the purge a year later...
...young Harvard graduate, Robert E. Lane, work-camp secretary of the International Student Service, arrived in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. last spring with an incredible proposal: a group of college boys & girls wanted the town to give them a tough job at manual labor-and they would pay for the privilege of doing it. Wilkes-Barre's puzzled citizens at first refused to bite. Eventually young Stanley Mesavage, industrial forester for the Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce, who was worried about forest fires that annually ravage the nearby Poconos, persuaded State and U.S. forestry officials to accept the collegians...
None of the students at Wilkes-Barre had ever done manual labor; one boy was so alarmed by the unknown ordeal that he prepared himself with typhoid injections. They live in the 150-year-old house of a retired Wyoming Valley lawyer-farmer. They pay $50 (some have scholarships) for the four-week session, for food, staff salaries, etc. Camp director is young (32), pipe-smoking Edward Wright, teacher (Fieldston School), New York City Republican reform politician (he ran for the City Council last year). On his staff are a medical student, who looks after campers' hurts, an educational...