“Call me ‘Champ’!”, by Elsie Leffingwell, from the January 1955 issue of Today’s Secretary. 316 words.
Flash Reading: for practising reading quickly.
Graded: this text is based on chapters One through Ten of the Manual.
“How fast can you read shorthand? You can probably speed   through this page, which is based on chapters One through Ten  of the   Manual. This material is counted in groups of twenty “standard” words   each, so that you can estimate your reading speed.”      
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