Word: personality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...practical uses of compressed speech are diverse and often complex. Its most immediate implications are in the field of education for the blind. When reading Braille, a blind person can achieve a maximum rate of 125 words per minute, provided he is skilled enough to use both hands. The average Braille reading rate is only 90 w.p.m. With Cramer's speeded speech program, however, blind children could listen to compressed speech lectures through earphones in languagelab situations at anywhere from 475 to 600 w.p.m. In the future, new techniques may raise intelligibility rates to 1000 w.p.m. A speeded speech program...
...main point," Mrs. Ackerman argued "is that we would recognize any request from a responsible person at Harvard as a reasonable request" and would grant the use of the facilities...
...that matter, can a serious person really believe that the rest of the Ramparts-Jones saga is anything but a macabre and mischievous exercise in mythmaking...
Sometimes slightly authoritarian, Compton's scolds readers in an article on the arts: "The person who says he dislikes classical music is condemning himself, not music...
Chicago cops had also got the message. Asked if he had questioned Escobedo, one police lieutenant pointed wordlessly at a bold-lettered sign on the station-house wall: EVERY PERSON...