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UPRIGHT OR SLOPING WRITING—WHICH?
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(in Vienna and elsewhere) to thoroughly test this question, a remarkable coincidence in the figures being the outcome. Dr.
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Fig. 13.
Scharff conducted several contests between the two classes of writers, and states that vertical writers—the best—took 24 minutes to copy out a poem which the best sloping writers finished in 30