Thorndike
Americannoun
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Ashley Horace, 1871–1933, U.S. literary historian and teacher.
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Edward Lee, 1874–1949, U.S. psychologist and lexicographer.
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(Everett) Lynn, 1882–1965, U.S. historian and scholar (brother of Ashley Horace Thorndike).
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Dame Sybil, 1882–1976, English actress.
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Edward Lee. 1874–1949, US psychologist, who worked on animals and proposed that all learnt behaviour is regulated by rewards and punishments ( Thorndike's law or law of effect )
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Dame ( Agnes ) Sybil . 1882–1976, British actress
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The arrival of the stock market’s go-go years in the late 1960s drove Wellington to merge with aggressive Boston-based fund manager Thorndike, Doran, Paine & Lewis.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
The latter group took control of the firm in the 1970s with Nick Thorndike as chairman.
From Barron's • May 1, 2026
"We're all about remembrance and education," says David Thorndike, who was a 10-year-old boy when the B-17s collided near Canvey and remembers the immediate aftermath.
From BBC • May 18, 2024
In the late 1990s, Stewart Thorndike found herself working as a model in London.
From New York Times • Aug. 18, 2023
The red Thorndike dictionaries were going to need some help; most of their covers had come off when we stepped onto them to climb higher up the bookshelves.
From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt
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