Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...healthy proportion of Harvard and Radcliffe students (60 to 70 per cent according to Jack M. Stein, Chairman of the German Department) continue language study here voluntarily, so the modifications of the requirement won't depopulate Harvard language courses. Next year the CEP may be able to forego its annual and always lengthy theoretical debate on language study. For the student the change may not be the optimum solution, but it is the only politically feasible one and will eliminate the worst hardships of the present scheme...
Brooks, however, is not satisfied with these arguments. He said that closing three Milton stations would inconvenience a large number of people, the cost of the plan would mean unnecessarily increased tax assessments, and running rapid transit into an area where only 1500 people board per day is wasteful...
Steve says that he saves 60 per cent of the time that it once took him to read medical texts, yet he reads them twice...
Just to show you that they are not unique, here are typical samples of progress in words per minute by Reading Dynamics graduates in the Boston-Providence Area. Improvement by typical graduates In words per minute.* BOSTON AND PROVIDENCE NAME OCCUPATION Easy Diff. BEGINNING Easy Diff. ENDING George Adams, sales sup. 244 175 756 928 Laura Anderson, student 292 290 1824 950 Ruth Atran, student 413 290 1536 1682 Jeneth Antonucci, cashier 269 232 1250 1930 John Angier, inv. sec. 240 230 1158 1015 Walter Butler,accountant 362 349 912 830 Rodney Bond, student 358 265 1700 1250 Nancy Brenner...
...when a professor at the University of Utah read her term paper at an amazing 6000 words a minute. Mrs. Wood's curiosity caused her to look for other exceptional readers, and over the next few years she found 50 people who could read faster than 1500 words per minute with fine comprehension, outstanding recall and great reading satisfaction...