Word: readings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...principle of the training involves a discovery made several years ago by the School of Education. It was found that the success and speed of a reader varies as the number of stops he must make for each line of type read. The number of halts of the Yardlings used for the research was reduced from ten to six in the short period in which they have been working...
...rather strange arrangement," commented Mr. Justice Bennett. Asked if he would like to read a book called What Is the Oxford Group?, he snapped, "I won't, unless it is necessary," and adjourned the case, pending further evidence...
...Manhattan, a Gallup poll claimed that 14,000,000 people have read all or part of Gone With the Wind, that 56,500,000 (65% of the movie public) want to see the picture. Of the 56,500,000, only 16% are dissatisfied with the choice of Vivien Leigh as Scarlett...
...crack up-but only fictitiously, in a semi-autobiographical novel about a famous U. S. newspaperman who ends up drinking himself to death in a backwoods cabin in British Columbia. An awkwardly constructed, Lost Generation novel, teeming with love affairs, ineffective cures for alcoholism, neurotic athleticism, it will be read for its confessional thrills. But it will arouse little sympathy, despite the alibi that its drunken hero is an idealist "still searching for the impossible in love, still clinging to many of his childhood ecstasies and still uncalloused...
Followers of Harvard swimming have read all about the trimming Princeton administered to Harvard Saturday afternoon. They have studied the summary and scanned the stories. Perhaps the only viewpoint which has not been inflicted upon them is that of the Crimson rooters at the meet...