Word: handedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Messrs. Loeb and Frazer handed in their survey to New York City. Discussing the economy of abundance, they announced that the U. S. could have produced $287,000,000,000 more goods and services in the last five years than it did, that if all productive capacity had...
Son of a Polish father and a Bohemian mother, Stan Kostka followed Coach Clarence W. ("Doc") Spears when he left Minnesota to go to Oregon, played there two years, wanted to follow Spears to Wisconsin but a Big Ten ruling would have prevented his playing football there. As it is...
...appears," says Dr. Dearborn, "that in order to avoid difficulties in reading and writing, one should be either left-eyed and left-handed or right-eyed and right-handed, and preferably the latter. Difficulties appear especially in children who have been changed over in handedness or whose one-sidedness or lateral dominance has never been well established...
The key to the difficulties experienced by the dyslexia subjects, according to Dr. Dearborn, is the fact that in the English language the movements of the hand and eye are from the left to the right. This, it has been well established is the easiest and most natural movement for...
Paul Wittgenstein, famed one-armed Austrian pianist, had made his U. S. debut with the Boston Symphony, playing a Concerto especially composed for him by Maurice Ravel. Bostonians closed their eyes because it seemed incredible that a single left hand could compass a keyboard so quickly and completely, make the...