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Word: speeded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Speed Reading. During recreation hours, members of the student crew-who range in age from 21 to 28, have about the same physical and psychological qualifications required for astronauts-go to extreme lengths to avoid boredom. They have practiced script-lettering and speed reading (one has progressed from 350 words to 4,400 words per minute), passed questionnaires and notes in bottles to the experiment team outside, and performed trumpet and harmonica duets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Santa Monica Shot | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

Sure enough, I could only complete 20 of 110 on the speed tests. But to my credit they were all correct. As we walked down to the second floor's commander I began to suspect that my effort didn't impress Captain Johnston. The second floor commander was more cheerful but then he had a window open...

Author: By Rotc TRICK Knee team and Captain No-l, S | Title: Alice's Restaurant Revisited | 4/17/1968 | See Source »

Lacrosse has evolved from a game of mass confusion to a contest of intricate strategy. It combines features most familiarly recognized in other sports which are in reality much younger. The speed of basketball with its picks, weaves, screens, and fast breaks, and the deft stick-handling of ice hockey both find usage in lacrosse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lacrosse Now Is Tame Compared to Injun Game | 4/13/1968 | See Source »

Will we make Martin Luther King's undiminished and unyielding dream of an integrated and just society of black and white a reality? Or will we allow the slow motion of judicial, all deliberate speed to continue to maim the minds of the young, black and white alike...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peretz on King at Memorial Church | 4/13/1968 | See Source »

...hope of forestalling border taxes and surcharges, West Germany has pressured the Common Market to speed up its own Kennedy Round tariff cuts without corresponding acceleration by the U.S. Such action would bolster the inflation-shrunk U.S. trade surplus by hundreds of millions of dollars over the next 31 years. So far, France has blocked agreement inside the EEC, but Common Market ministers will tackle the question again this week in Brussels. Hard-pressed Britain has announced that it is willing to grant full Kennedy Round cuts by next Jan. 1 instead of holding to the original five-year timetable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Trade: Shades of Smoot & Hawley | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

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