Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard lightweight crews posted their fourth consecutive sweep of the season Saturday at New Haven. In all five races, Princeton was second and Yale was third...
ANNAPOLIS, Md., April 29--The Harvard lightweight crews completed their third sweep of the season against Navy and Georgetown on the Severn River here today...
Captain Wayne Anderson hung on in the 220 to nip junior Jeff Huvelle in 21.5. Anderson also led sophomore Bill Jewett to the 100 tape in 9.8, and Huvelle's 48.4 paced a sweep -- one of Harvard's nine--in the quarter...
...rest of the steps from three on are devoted to enlarging the fixation area and learning how to read out of expectancy order. Step three teaches the student to read down three lines diagonally from left to right and then, on what used to be the return sweep, to read down three lines diagonally from right to left. On both of these downward-diagonal sweeps, only three fixations are made. The expanded fixation is called the "soft glance,"and is by far the most important Reading Dynamics technique, and the most difficult to master. It assumes a greatly decreased subvocalization...
...only one thing in common with conventional reading: fixation time is the same, about one-quarter of a second. But the number of fixations is reduced by at least 90 per cent. Reading is from eye to mind, rather than from eye to ear to mind. The terms return sweep and regression have lost all meaning. Right to left diagonal eye movement usually dominates over the old left to right because it seems to be easier...