Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shurcliff first read of the SST in a scientific article by Lundberg about four years ago. Lundberg listed several of the SST's defects. "I was so amazed I practically memorized the article," Shurcliff remembers, and began writing letters to find out more about...
...McCarriston, J., student 356 1608 272 900 Morgan, E., mgr. mtg. eng. 500 2100 400 1000 Morse, H., employer Medinet 475 1600 747 1520 Noyes, W., seminary stud. 528 1200 340 1450 Piper, H., Harvard student 500 1488 420 1100 Puricelli, R., jr. claim exam. 329 2392 294 2243 Read, N., B.U. student 317 1375 258 870 Rudolf, H., consultant 205 770 174 550 Saunders, W., copy writer 419 2100 380 1060 Shields, E., sales rep. 269 1722 224 1200 Smith, R., Harvard B. School 536 2016 350 2250 Souza, L., teacher 148 1008 154 1392 Thayer, S., Harvard stud...
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, to find the answers. Eventually she developed a technique whereby 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...