Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About one child in ten is a "strephosymbolic" (twister of 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...
...schoolboy who writes with his left hand, not only backwards but also upside down. When he was in the first grade in Chicago's Fulton Elementary School, Frank Balek, now eleven, the son of a left-handed mother, puzzled his teachers because he could not learn to read or write. In the second grade he pushed his paper sideways, began to make some progress. By the third grade he had shoved the paper all the way around and was writing rapidly by his own method. Starting in the lower right-hand corner of his paper, his first line would...
...writing continues in this fashion up the page, is easily read by his teachers, who merely turn the paper around. Frank also does arithmetic upside down. He reads more easily holding his book upside down, but has learned to read rightside up with better than average speed. He has also learned to write-slowly and laboriously, but legibly on a blackboard in the ordinary way, but it is much easier for him to write upside down...
Ever since he read a newspaper editorial on the small speedster some time ago, Dr. Irving Langmuir, General Electric Co.'s Nobel Prizewinning research ace, has doubted that it could fly anywhere near as fast as it was billed. Recently, with characteristic thoroughness. Dr. Langmuir set out to debunk the botfly; last week he published his findings in Science...
...responsive chord. It soon had 340 signatures, turned out 400 parents one night to beard the Board of Education and argue about the shortcomings of Roslyn's three elementary schools. One by one they denounced Superintendent Wegner's highfalutin' notions, complained that their children could not read. Up jumped one taxpayer to snort that a class of boys had spent an entire day learning how to make nut bread...