Word: paragraphed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attacking the problem scientifically, the clinic uses the following method of increased reading ability: a paragraph of material is shown on the screen. Then it is repeated in short flashes of word groupings, until the paragraph has been seen, not in its entirety, but as a collection of word-groupings...
...Some anonymous buildings, suggesting another paragraph by Poet MacNeice: "And it is heartbreaking, too, to walk through parts of the East End which may not lately have been bombed but which were more or less evacuated under an earl ier terror and left to the rats and the damp -the petrification of the memory of poverty. Street after street of empty stinking homes which will never-or so we hope-be anybody's homes any more...
...suggest a full page in every interested news organ throughout the land, to impress this historic last paragraph upon a public which doesn't so much need full pages of studied information as it does full paragraphs burned deep into them...
...views to the Prime Minister in a letter so gracious that Mr. Gladstone was quite pleased. When a general informed the Queen of an African victory but ventured to suggest further military reforms, Ponsonby reworded the Queen's furious reply into compliments on the victory (and a paragraph covering the unhappy gaff...
Nudity Is Not Enough. There was only a skeleton staff hanging around in the tabloid Daily News's city room when the Associated Press teletype clattered briefly, spewed forth a two-paragraph bulletin about the discovery of Patricia Lonergan's body. Customary Sunday evening doldrums vanished. Mention of a "nude body" and the murder weapons (candlesticks) was promising. But only when they saw "triplex apartment" and"Beekman Hill" did News staffers know they had something. The fastest-breaking crime staff in the U.S. swung into action...