Word: goldsmithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan meeting of the New York Academy of Sciences heard last week about a drug that may have more effect on mankind than insulin or penicillin. The announcement dealt with work done by Dr. Eli D. Goldsmith, chairman of the academy's biology section, on a chemical that stops pregnancy in mice without doing any apparent harm to the animals. Given to the mice in their diets after they have become pregnant, it causes the fetus to be "resorbed" without any apparent harmful effect...
Manhattan's sordid basketball scandal kept right on rolling. Last week police arrested the 18th college player (and the eighth from Long Island University) to be accused of fixing games in Madison Square Garden. The player: Jackie Goldsmith, 31, described by the D.A.'s office as "the essential key . . . responsible for the corruption of more basketball players than any single person." The specific charge: offering bribes totaling $3,500 to four L.I.U. players...
Coach Norm Shepard expects to start Captain-elect John Stevenson and Ambie Redmond at guard, Dick Lionette at center, and freshmen Bill Dennis and Ed Condon at guard. Opposing what will be a preview of next year's varsity will be guards John Rockwell, Cliff Crosby, John Goldsmith, Bill Henry, and seniors Ed Smith and Jim Gabler...
Dudley and Silliman, teams which have lost all other games during the season, fought to a scoreless tie yesterday. Dudley made three concerted efforts to score, while Silliman failed to threaten once. Two passers, Dave Mahoney for the Commuters and John Goldsmith for Silliman, stood out for their long throws...
...Young Boswell wasted no time in pushing himself forward. He chatted easily, had a knack for making friends, had his hair "dressed" every day and took care to be seen in the most fashionable places. He was soon intimate with Lord and Lady Northumberland, Actor David Garrick, Writer Oliver Goldsmith and a fast set of tony young rakes. He dined well, co-authored (with Andrew Erskine) a book of poems and letters which he calmly reviewed himself in the London Chronicle as "a book of true genius." London's more objective Critical Review called the poems "the cheapest...