Word: worded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last of the session's 399 bills and 5,000,000 words of debate were put into the record, Prime Minister King, 21 years and 25 days in office as head of Canada's government, rose to address the House. He reminded members of his decision to resign as Prime Minister two or three months after the August Liberal Convention has picked his successor. As he spoke, External Affairs Secretary Louis St. Laurent, his heir apparent, and Agriculture Minister James Gardiner, St. Laurent's only admitted rival, sat near by. For them or whoever else would take...
...five years of school, a ten-year-old boy had learned to write one word: her. He thought it spelled chicken...
...years at the clinic school, kindly, frowzy Grace Fernald has treated hundreds of thousands of such cases of "word blindness." Her only requirements: that pupils be of normal intelligence and that their parents leave them at the clinic until the cure is complete. In two months to two years, she has usually been able to bring their reading ability up to their mental age level...
...especially bright youngster passed seven school grades in ten months. Under her direction, a Boy Scout took a young buddy through three grades in three months. A 17-year-old "total reading disability" case was learning 73 new words a day within three months. She has also helped Phi Beta Kappa students who think they can't read fast enough (usual diagnosis: they are reading word by word, instead of by groups of words...
Touch & Go. Grace Fernald is one of the pioneers of a latter-day science called remedial reading. Her "kinesthetic method" works on the theory that reading difficulties occur most frequently in people who lack the ability to summon up a mental picture of the way a word looks. She finds that women have more visual ability than men, and that word blindness is 60 times more common among...