Word: paragrapher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paragraphs in the article, almost all are either wholly or in part in error; the others are irrelevant. The student who would like details in refutation of these paragraphs is invited to call or visit any of our institutes at his convince. Meanwhile, the examination of one paragraph, typical in its lack of information of most of the others, should suffice for providing insight into the nature of the article as a whole...
...Faculty voted at its May 16 meeting to amend the paragraph about student voluntary withdrawals that now appears in the Regulations for Students at Harvard College...
...student required to withdraw from the College must stay away for a minimum of two terms, the additional paragraph explains. During the absence, the student "must show an acceptable record of performance during a substantial period (at least six months) of regular employment...
...taut and economical prose. Then he squandered the education on venomous hack work for West Coast literary journals and as a columnist for William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner. He never wrote anything longer than a short story; he was not in the habit of writing a paragraph when just a word would do. The Devil's Dictionary, a lexicon of Bierce's scorn for mankind and all its institutions -now expanded by material that the editors say has not been anthologized before-stands today not only as the distillation of Bierce's thought...
Evelyn Wood's method of teaching speed reading has changed little since her days of glory at the University of Delaware. If you were one of the supposed 300,000 people who have mastered her technique, you would have passed this paragraph a long time ago and would be making better use of your time on column...