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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flesch gave his work to the public in The Art of Plain Talk (Harper, 1946). For $2.50 anybody can buy the formula, can test his own stuff. That people don't, for various reasons (i.e., it's a lot of work, people worry more about what they say than about how they say it), is the raison d'être of "readability experts...
...between the two kinds of entertainment. Extremes range from all informal dances at Leverett to a preponderance of formals at Lowell. The decision regarding the type of dance is made entirely by the individual dance committee of each House so that a well represented committee should be competent to test House opinion on the matter. A limit of three open dances per year for each House is the only restriction imposed by the University while the number of closed dances is unlimited subject to approval by the House Master...
...year-old Jack Kramer had swept all amateur tennis opponents before him. How would the Davis Cup hero do on a slippery board floor? He wasn't sure himself. Last week, in the U.S. indoor championships in Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory, he put himself to the test. It was his first indoor tournament...
...this acid test, Elgin National Watch Co. demonstrated its new spring, which it called the biggest thing in watchmaking since the introduction of jewel bearings in 1704. Mainsprings have been the source of about half of all watch troubles. Elgin bragged that its new spring, made of a nonmagnetic alloy, will eliminate almost all these troubles...
...test the spring, Elgin last year quietly sold more than 100,000 watches containing the new spring. So far not one has been returned for spring trouble...