Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They used to read from 100 to 400 words per minute They can now read from 600 to 2000 words per minute...
...begin our second year of monthly reports on successful students. We are presenting four persons who have made extensive use of their Reading Dynamics experience. As students and professionals they must read heavily, and they expect their professional lives to continue the pressure for large amounts of reading. The oldest, Steve, is in his first year of internship at a local hospital. Paul will graduate from college in June; Mike and Larry, ages 14 and 18, attend prep school...
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...
...scruples at all about their terrible profession? How could the almost offensively respectable Englishman. John Newton, who eventually switched from slave captain to clergyman, pack chained human beings into a suffocating hold as tightly as "books upon a shelf," and then retire to his well-appointed cabin to read the Bible and pray...
...network of slave profiteers began with black African wheeler-dealers whose names read like a roster of fly-by-night used-car salesmen-Grand Trading Man Ben Johnson, Willy Honesty, Yellow Will. But before long, European heads of state were getting their share of the action by way of taxes, if not by direct participation. When Queen Elizabeth heard about the first African voyage of John Hawkins, she called it "detestable" and prophesied that it "would call down vengeance from Heaven upon the undertakers." When she learned how handsomely the shareholders made out, she invested in the second expedition herself...