Word: methods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sugar. Depite these potential profits, said Reagan, "I am opposed to the state using such a method to obtain revenue. I reject the idea that the state might take advantage of its citizens or that it should operate its finances on the one-shot windfall theory or that the average man will cheat his government...
Evelyn Wood's method of teaching speed reading has changed little since her days of glory at the University of Delaware. If you were one of the supposed 300,000 people who have mastered her technique, you would have passed this paragraph a long time ago and would be making better use of your time on column...
...idea to the Wood Method, which is foreign to all conventional reading philosophy and which seems to violate the bounds of common sense more than the other theories, is that comprehension increases as the reading rate reaches exceptionally high levels. It is true that most traditionalists agree a person will understand better at 350 words per minute than at a rate of 200. But they contend that at more accelerated speeds the comprehension will drop sharply. What is unique about Evelyn Wood's concept is that she has taken the idea of speed - increasing - comprehension and extended it far beyond...
Reading authorities realized that the only effective way to increase the reading rate was to change the eye patterns in some way. But it was not until World War II that a method was discovered for doing so. A device called a tachistoscope was used by the Air Force to train pilots to recognize the markings on airplanes in splitsecond time. The machine began flashing pictures of enemy fighter planes on a screen for one second and diminished the time until the planes were recognizable to the pilots at 1/100 seconds...
...Master's thesis to a professor and watched astounded as he flipped the pages at 6000 words per minute. Intriqued, she soon rounded up 50 equally rapid readers and after a few years discovered their secret and had it patented. It took two more years to teach herself the method and after that Mrs. Wood began experimenting with Utah high school students. After running through a good percentage of Utah's high school population, she decided to commercialize and there she was in Wilmington, Delaware in the spring...