Word: orton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...symbols). He tends to see or remember things backwards. Most common form of this peculiarity is to read was for saw. Other strephosymbolics are "mirror writers," who write backwards, from right to left. This phenomenon still baffles psychologists. Most widely accepted theory is that of famed Psychopathologist Samuel Torrey Orton of Manhattan. He holds that reading & writing are controlled by one side of the brain. Normally one cerebral hemisphere is dominant, but when that is not the case, the brain may picture an image in reverse, cause the individual to read or write backwards...
...would richly enjoy these sports and would contribute at one and the same time to their own physical well-being and their college's distinction, that such a condition should prevail, and I think that there are many other undergraduates who felt the same way about it. S. T. Orton...
...tender their "conditional" resignations, pending an investigation of the matter and an assignment of responsibility? I feel that if would be only fair to themselves and to the council that they do this. I think there are many other undergraduates who feel the same way about it Samuel T. Orton...
Amid the noise and jostle of the celebration an Exeter junior named Basil Orton, son of a Smith College professor, stumbled and fell directly under the coach's creaky wheels. Six days later he died of internal injuries. Last week Exeter authorities announced that the Chariot of Victory celebration, 20 years old, would probably be stopped...
...Ingalls, W. H. Keffer, Graham King, R. H. Knapp, James Langhlin, F. C. Leonard, W. F. Loomis, J. J. McCue, John McNeill, Malcolm Millard, J. B. Miller, S. R. Miller, F. B. Murphy, C. H, Newton, G. W. Oettle, L. H. Orr, S. T. Orton, Thomas Paull, C. F. Pierce, Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Talbot Rantoul, W. F. Read, A. C. Reggie, C. W. Robbins, J. W. Robinson, Shipherd Robinson, David Rockefeller, C. B. Rockwell, M. K. Ruddock, J. G. Scaunell, P. M. Schless, J. V. Shapiro, J. J. Slocum, A. B. Smith, F. N. Sommer, R. R. Spaulding...