Word: straightened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't a big deal at the time," says Olkin. "If something in his view wasn't following the natural order of things, it was his job to straighten it out. It was just the way he acted. Everyone stands up for what he thinks is right...
...didn't want to seem like just another idiot." Horner went into the family's gravel business, but he continued to hunt for a job in the dinosaur line, finally landing one in 1975 as an assistant in paleontology at Princeton University, where his first assignment was to straighten bent nails. There, at the age of 31, he discovered that his academic problem was not stupidity but dyslexia...