Word: lefthandedness
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"When, however, the instruction to use the right hand is given very early in childhood and if it is given without severity but with kind persistency then such trouble need not develop. No such difficulties have been met by my brother, nor with two of my boys who were born...
"My brother is lefthanded, but he has acquired a complete ambidexterity. Many modern physicians advise against forcing a left-handed child to use his right hand instead of his left. It may produce serious trouble like stuttering and confusing right and left in reading.† Such people will read '...
Light-Twisted Life. Most people are righthanded. Certain sugars are also "right-handed", in that they twist a beam of polarized light to the right. Maybe, suggested Dr. William Hobson Mills of Cambridge, the dexterity of chemicals and people have a common base. To experiment he projected beams of light...
The changes were two. First, John Hope Doeg, lefthanded, 22, nephew of famed May Sutton Bundy, youngest of the younger players, emerged and won the National Championship at Forest Hills. Second, three new players, younger than the "younger players" and with normal personal differentiation, made their appearance. These were Frank...
If this seemed lefthanded, even back handed, it was nevertheless the most direct language which a President of France, in finitely hemmed about by regulations, may use. The climax of President Doumergue's speech was a stern demand that France think twice before deciding to reduce her armaments at...