Word: moving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...move, which has been anticipated for some time, took definite shape in a meeting of Locals 186 and 112 in Cypress Hall, Central Square. At the same time belief was confirmed that the C. I. O. will take no part in union agitation here...
Meanwhile strong possibilities developed that a counter drive was afoot to introduce a company union. It was believed that primary purpose of this move is to offset the startling progress made during the last two weeks by cooks, waitresses and bus boys towards permanent organization...
Since Physarum produces "fruits" at intervals averaging 14 days (at the end of which it turns into hard, seedlike cells), it is formally classified as a plant. Yet the new little fruits, bundles of protoplasm, have powers of locomotion like an animal. They move by the classical method of protoplasmic streaming-protruding part of their body, pulling the rest after the protrusion...
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...
...create a regular rhythm of reading is the task of another machine, the metronoscope, which exposes one, two or three words at a time to the reader through a narrow window. It trains the reader to extend his span to two words, cuts the fixation time. Because the words move out of sight as fast as they are read, it eliminates regressions. The speed of the machine is gradually increased to raise the reader's speed...