article_snippet: The research demanded at least two readings (one at ease, one standing to quivering attention) for each handsome specimen.
article_snippet: Were the laboratory assistants who took the data dreary, middle-aged men speaking in the monotones of E. L. Wisty (the know-it-all creation of the comedian Peter Cook)?
article_snippet: You may think it peculiar that I dwell on these matters, not least for what I am about to say: I seriously doubt that many blokes are much concerned by these readings.
article_snippet: I do not mean that many blokes are much concerned by these readings will not have been interested and amused by yesterday’s news reports.
article_snippet: Dr Veale said Dr Veale would ‘use the graphs to examine the discrepancy between what a man believes to be their position on the graph and their actual position’.