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Word: paragrapher (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attacking the problem scientifically, the clinic uses the following method of increasing 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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Educational Clinic Tests and Corrects Reading Speeds and Comprehension | 10/22/1943 | See Source »

Look over that paragraph, or did you get it the first time...

Author: By S/sgt GEORGE Avaklan, | Title: Specialists' Corner | 10/12/1943 | See Source »

Petrillo chuckled. A newsman asked which paragraph of the contract he liked best. Said he, always explicit: "The one with the dough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The One with the Dough | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

...Each cell of the body contains a minute suction and pressure pump. . . . Before Alfred Lawson explained PENETRABILITY . . . no one seemed to know the cause of capillary action. The foregoing paragraph should clear up that problem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Zigzag & Swirl | 9/6/1943 | See Source »

...standard section of O'Nolan's column is a paragraph or two of bogus Keatsiana, in which he hangs most of his laboriously manufactured puns on the poet and his "friend" Chapman. Samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Eire's Columnist | 8/23/1943 | See Source »

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