Word: assayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still want to assay the bulk of Letters--out of a sentimental attachment to Barth's brilliant earlier epic-length efforts, Giles Goat-Boy and The Sot-Weed Factor, or out of sheer quixotic nerve--you could take the advice of Jacob Horner, formerly the protagonist of The End of the Road and now a pawn wandering Barth's checkerboard...
more than $1 million worth of gold had disappeared from the U.S. Assay Office, a fortress-like building in lower Manhattan where some 2 million oz. of gold are refined every year. Treasury officials figured that the gold rush took place some time between 1973 and 1977 but could not be more specific because of "significant irregularities" in the office's accounting procedures...
...father's testes. In any case, the test has already been put to important clinical use. At New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, for example, a two-year-old child with an enlarged clitoris but a seemingly normal XX chromosome pattern was tested for H-Y antigen. The assay turned out positive, and subsequent surgery revealed the reason: she was a hermaphrodite, with dual sexual organs-an ovary on one side and a combination of ovary and testis on the other. The doctors promptly removed the ovotestis, thereby reducing the danger of cancer and ensuring that she would...
...honored, impartial scientists. It is therefore essential for realistic evaluation of such views that readers know of the commercial connections of Dr. David Baltimore and Dr. Salvador Luria: both are listed as consultants in the brochure of Collaborative research, of Waltham, a company that manufactures products employed in the assay of restriction enzymes used in recombinant DNA research. Francine Robinson Simring, Chairman Committee for Genetics
This is the South that is examined in this special issue of TIME. It is, of course, impossible to assay completely any region of the nation. The South is particularly complex and contradictory, a mix of modern and ancient, traditional and futuristic. East Texas, for example, is as Deep South in feeling as Savannah, Ga.; West Texas is truly western. Miami Beach is as much a suburb of New York?or Havana?as a Florida city. Yet there is much that knits this land and holds it together, with its own special character and flavor and language. If the South...