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...there is a pause, while the words register on the brain; 94% of reading time is spent in these "fixations." Sometimes the eye goes back over words it has already scanned. These are regressions. To read rapidly it is necessary to reduce regressions to a minimum, shorten fixations, lengthen the recognition span...
Feeling the pinch of Recession, the automobile industry has had to pare production schedules, shorten hours. Fisher Body employes in many cases have been working only 24 hours per week, and when layoffs began the shop was apparently ripe for revolt. One strike early in the week was quickly discontinued, but the suspension of four of its leaders immediately brought on another outbreak. In Lansing, Fisher Body workers reached the point of taking a strike vote but direct pressure from U. A. W. President Homer Martin helped kill the move. Adding to the workers' discontent have been the grinding...
...Adding one more to its string of lucky or prescient articles (TIME, May 24), the Saturday Evening Post last week carried a biography of Golfer Guldahl written two months ago by Sportswriter Keeler, which, if bookmakers at Oakland Hills had been sophisticated journalists, might well have caused them to shorten their Guldahl odds of 10-to-1. The article ended as follows...
...varsity continued on an eight mile paddle today, while the others came in after shorter jaunts. All of the crews are spacing well, with little tendency to check, but the Jayvees have shown some inclination to shorten up; the combines, main trouble at the present seems to be balance...
...result of this disregard for economy of time is to prevent a man from earning a substantial income until, on the average, he is thirty-three years old. The most obvious and practical way of meeting this problem in part, at least, is to intensify school work and shorten the college course to three years for those who desire it. In favor of long-term education are those who plead that a man is too young for college until he is nineteen, the advocates of inflexible concentration and distribution requirements, and many who demand years spent in broadening the student...