Word: utah
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Utah schoolteacher discovers technique of dynamic reading...
Evelyn Wood first observed dynamic reading 18 years ago when a professor at the University of Utah read her term paper at an amazing 6000 words a minute. Mrs. Wood's curiosity caused her to look for other exceptional readers, and over the next few years she found 50 people who could read faster than 1500 words per minute with fine comprehension, outstanding recall and great reading satisfaction...
...taught her method at the University of Utah for three years, refining it even more. Further studies were conducted at the University of Delaware, and the first Reading Dynamics Institute was opened in Washington, D.C., in September, 1959. Since that time, institutes have been opened in 61 cities throughout the country, and national enrollment for the course has topped...
...strike has shut down some 60 facilities in 23 states and heavily damaged the economies of Arizona, Montana, Nevada, Utah and New Mexico. It has also added at least $200 million to the nation's balance-of-payments deficit, as copper users have been forced to turn to foreign suppliers, who now charge 700 a Ib. Despite union strike benefits, federal food stamps and county welfare payments, the strikers are hurting too. "Financially, I'm busted," said Machinist Wilbur E. Moses of Anaconda, Mont., last week. "But there ain't much we can do about...
...taught her method at the University of Utah for three years refining it even more. Further studies were conducted at the University of Delaware, and the first Reading Dynamics Institute was opened in Washington, D.C., in September, 1959. Since that time institutes have been opened in 61 cities throughout the country, and national enrollment for the course has topped...