...the fixation pauses, and this in spite of the fact that the eyes actually pass downward in sweeping from the end of one line to the beginning of the next. Observe as very striking examples return sweep D of record 6 of Plate V, return sweep B of record 5...

...illustrates clearly what I mean by having the reader's eye "butt" into the border by every attempt to follow from the end of one line to the beginning of the next. Three times the present margins of the Kawneer advertisement would materially improve the appearance...

...such a way as to enable the reader to recognize the word in its correct pronunciation, while passing from the end of one line to the beginning of the next, without having to go back and reconstruct it. For example, "part" would naturally pass over to "ly"...

...eyesore ; it disheartens the reader at a glance ; pursuing its mazy course, he can scarce find his way from the end of one line to the beginning of the next. It must be poor stuff, he decides, to be crowded into so small a space and served out in so spendthrift...

...covered such short distances that numerous bothersome transfers of passengers, freight and baggage from the end of one line to the beginning of the next were necessary on every considerable journey. No fewer than five companies, for example, divided the...

...explanation. The film passed through the camera in a downward direction. A horizontal eye movement from the end of one line to the beginning of the next would appear as an oblique line, due to the fact that the eye moves down to the next line while the...

...extricating himself from a word difficulty, (c) The subject used an inaccurate, uneconomical return sweep from the end of one line to the beginning of the next. This was indicated by the location of the first fixation of each line. In the second line it was fourth...

...order to promote a rapid and accurate return sweep. The subject was instructed to move his eyes quickly from the end of one line to the beginning of the next without stopping to look at any of the words of the second line. He was aware of the practice which...

...of clear vision, owing to the velocity with which they move from fixation to fixation and sweep back from the end of one line to the beginning of the next, it follows that whatever clear vision occurs must take place during the brief momentary fixation-pauses....

...teacher read. Some attention was given also to establishing more accurate return sweeps of the eyes from the end of one line to the beginning of the next. 171 Selections from primers were used for this purpose because the lines were short and farther apart...