others were of men doffing their hats to each other, carrying umbrellas with pomp, reading newspapers, or simply showing loaves of bread spread out.

their reading and thinking gave an extension to their normal blushes about appearing ' Jewish ' in subway, bus, racetrack, movie house, any of the public places that used to make the Jew of my generation self-conscious ( heavy thinkers walking across Seventh Avenue without their glasses on, willing to dare the trucks as long as they didn't look like the ikey-kikey caricature of the Yiddish intellectual ).

For those who `` like poetry but never get around to reading it '', the Library of Congress makes it possible for poets to be heard reading their own work.

After she had served the detectives coffee and toast ( they politely declined eggs, uncomfortable about their tenancy ), she settled down with a morning newspaper and began reading the stock market quotations.

Nevertheless, with a reading public that longs for the `` good old days '' and with an awareness of our expanding international interests, it is easy for the Benets to obtain a magnified position in literature by use of all sorts of Americana, real or fake, and it is easy for the Steinbecks and Sandburgs to support their messages of reform by reading messages of reform into the minds of the folk.

Prisoners brought to the dock accused of murder or accident say they cannot remember, and reading the accounts of their testimony you cannot believe that the mind can remove, absent itself, unsee.

Although Tylor undertook a field trip to Mexico, both he and Frazer derived most of the material for their comparative studies through extensive reading, not fieldwork, mainly the Classics ( literature and history of Greece and Rome ), the work of the early European folklorists, and reports from missionaries, travelers, and contemporaneous ethnologists.

Under the heading of " practices ," his class considers how readers read and marked up their books, forms of note-taking, and the interrelation between reading and writing from copying and translating to composing new texts.

Glasses and other vision aids, large-print materials as well as bright but angled reading lights, can help individuals with albinism, even though their vision cannot be corrected completely.

After reading popular conspiracy theories about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, participants in this study correctly estimated how much their peers ' attitudes had changed, but significantly underestimated how much their own attitudes had changed to become more in favor of the conspiracy theories.

The latter course seems to have been seldom adopted ; the ordinary mode of inflicting the punishment was simply this: the censors in their new lists omitted the names of such senators as they wished to exclude, and in reading these new lists in public, quietly omitted the names of those who were no longer to be senators.

" However, during the reading of Leo's Tome, three passages were challenged as being potentially Nestorian, and their orthodoxy was defended by using the writings of Cyril.

A straightforward reading of,, and suggests that Jesus even forbids any hierarchy of relationships in Christian relationships: " You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them.

They also believe that the phrase Holy Spirit sometimes refers to God's character / mind, depending on the context in which the phrase appears, but reject the orthodox Christian view that we need strength, guidance and power from the Holy Spirit to live the Christian life, believing instead that the spirit a believer needs within themselves is the mind / character of God, which is developed in a believer by their reading of the Bible ( which, they believe, contains words God gave by his Spirit ) and trying to live by what it says during the events of their lives which God uses to help shape their character.

The study notes that maximum benefit may be seen when the information worker is spending large proportions of their time reading text ( which is not necessarily the case for the majority of computer users today ).

Used in various forms for thousands of years, diviners ascertain their interpretations of how a querent should proceed by reading signs, events, or omens, or through alleged contact with a supernatural agency.

To further their education, some people have devoted themselves to reading the entire Britannica, taking anywhere from three to 22 years to do so.

Additional help was given by a kind of Catholic Churchman's Almanack, called the Ordo Recitandi Divini Officii, published in different countries and dioceses, and giving, under every day, minute directions for proper reading.

Herb Friedman says that " Experiments have shown that the brain works most efficiently if the information rate through the ears -- via speech -- is the " average " reading rate, which is about 200-300 wpm ( words per minute ), yet the average rate of speech is in the neighborhood of 100-150 wpm.

A study of out-of-school reading of fifth graders, found that a student in the 50th percentile read books about 5 minutes a day, while a student in the 20th percentile read books for less than a minute a day.

It is conducted at a higher rate ( 700 words per minute and above ) than normal reading for comprehension ( around 200-230 wpm ), and results in lower comprehension rates, especially with information-rich reading material.

While the average adult reading rate is 250 words per minute with 70 % comprehension, speed reading programs typically claim that improvements to 500 words per minute or more while maintaining or improving comprehension are possible.

As of 2008, she charges $ 850 for a 20-30 minute telephone reading.

However, when the eyes are focused on an object for an extended period of time, such as when reading, the rate of blinking decreases to about 3-4 times per minute.

The 407 was available in a model that could read 100 cards per minute, and one reading 150 cards per minute.

In accordance with station tradition, a fifteen minute uninterrupted book reading, produced in-house by Radio New Zealand Drama, will be played between 10: 45 and Radio New Zealand News at 11: 00.

Counts per minute are only manifested in the reading of the measuring instrument, and are not an absolute measure of the strength of the source of radiation, which would be expressed in becquerels.

The practical content included 4 navigation flights building up from an initial 30 minute map reading exercise to a full 2 hour Navigation exercise covering up to distance.

A 1955 study by Miles Tinker showed that “ all-capital text retarded speed of reading from 9. 5 to 19. 0 per cent for the 5 and 10 minute time limits, and 13. 9 per cent for the whole 20 minute period .” Tinker concluded that, “ Obviously, all-capital printing slows reading to a marked degree in comparison with Roman lower case .”

Word counts may also be used to calculate measures of readability and to measure typing and reading speeds ( usually in words per minute ).

Words per minute is a common metric for assessing reading speed and is often used in the context of remedial skills evaluation, as well as in the context of speed reading, where it is a controversial measure of reading performance.

If a horizontal-plate sundial is portable and is made for the latitude in which it is being used, and if the user has a watch and the necessary information to calculate the local sundial time from its reading, the sundial can be used to find the directions of True North, South, etc.

For ease of reading, numbers with many digits before or after the decimal mark may be divided into groups using a delimiter, with the counting of groups starting from the decimal mark in both directions.

A running gag, dating back to the earliest radio series, has former Prime Minister, Tony Blair referring to his physical characteristics and mannerisms as if he were reading from a script and forgetting to stop when he got to the stage directions (" Hello, I'm Tony Blair.

Thomas Sheridan's lectures on elocution, collected in Lectures on Elocution ( 1762 ) and his Lectures on Reading ( 1775 ), provided directions for marking and reading aloud passages from literature.

They are seen in two varieties: 1 ) with both edge lettering inscriptions reading in the same direction, called " overlapped ", and 2 ) with the two inscriptions running in opposite directions — i. e., inverted or upside-down relative to one another — called " inverted ".

Such contradictions are to be expected, and the worthy reader will know the reason for them and the direction they tend to ... The correct reading of the Guide's chapters should be carried out in two complementary directions: on the one hand, one should distinguish each chapter from the rest, and on the other one should combine different chapters and construct out of them a single topic.

He was noted for reading his own stage directions out loud, and was always greeted with a deliberate round of applause from the audience (" Enter Bluebottle wearing string and cardboard pyjamas.

There are two main open reading frames arranged in opposite directions that encode the replication ( Rep ) and capsid ( Cap ) proteins.

He was able to hide his impairment from his mother for two years and from his school by following directions on the classroom blackboard and by reading his textbooks carefully.

* Stella, the woman who owns the garden and gives Macy directions, is seen reading a novel by Barbara Starr, Remy's mother in This Lullaby.

They were able to do this by " reading " factors such as abandoned equipment, changes from walking to running speed, reduced attempts at anti-tracking or splintering into smaller groups taking different directions (" bomb shelling ").