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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.

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