Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amazed that Doctor Zhivago was damned by Russia's so-called intellectuals, who obviously have not been able to read the book. Even in Boston we always read a book before...
...much less trouble and time than either books, audiovisual aids, or lectures. In Nat Sci 114 last year, in which forty-eight of the machines' disks replaced the textbooks, the average time spent at the machines to complete the forty-eight disks (equivalent to nearly a whole semester's reading) was about fourteen and a half hours. Comprehension did not suffer. Eventually the text was read too, for comparative purposes. To the question, "In comparing work on the machine with studying the text, I felt that with the same time and effort," thirty-two per cent of the students said...
...young man's face was bright as he read. He had a motor-scooter parked outside...
...young man's face was flushed; he wrinkled his little pink forehead as he read...
...little fellow, skinny and pale, oblivious to his receding hairline. His chin was receding, too, as were his eyes in little chipmunk pits far in his skull. He was very nervous, and twisted the sheets of very thin blue paper from which he read...