Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shapiros are not unusual. Nor do they naturally read so fast. They learned this revolutionary technique of rapid reading at the Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics Institute . . . along with more than 6000 other persons in the Boston-Providence Area. Of these, the average student begins at about 300 words a minute and finishes at speeds over 1200 words a minute...
...learn to read quite as fast as The Shapiros (and then again you might!), but the nationally known Reading Dynamics Institute guarantees that you'll at least triple your reading efficiency with good comprehension -- or receive a full tuition refund...
Evelyn Wood first observed dynamic reading 18 years ago 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...
...sure it was possible to read faster than anyone had thought, but the question of how was not yet answered. It took 8 years of toil and research working with naturally fast readers before she began to find the answers. Eventually she developed a technique where-by the average student was able to learn to read 3 to 10 times faster...
...read five times faster," she pointed out, "not by reading every fifth word but by reading five times as many words in the same amount of time." Mrs. Wood emphasized that using her technique of rapid reading, every word on the page is noted...