Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed of Incunabula are the Gutenberg Bibles, printed in and after 1456. A Gutenberg Bible is in Dr. Vollbehr's collection; there are 3,000 other items, including the first cookbook, the first book on music, the first on surgery, etc.. etc. Also, there is a book bound in the skin of a Spanish Jew persecuted for religious heresy, and many another curio...
...Bermuda. From New London, Conn., started 42 stout-hulled yachts, big and little schooners, ketches, sloops, some with modern sails, some with gaff rigs, Genoa jibs, fishermen's staysails, all bound for Hamilton, Bermuda. All were well provisioned, for sometimes it takes twelve days to get there. No boat has ever been sent out for stragglers; they all get in somehow. There have been accidents, torn sails, broken masts, but no one has ever been lost. Each captain picked his own course, looking for wind. First to reach Hamilton was Dr. George W. Warren's Yankee Girl...
...they ruffled the 344 pages of this crisp, blue-bound volume, most observers wondered how much the Simon Commission had been influenced by St. Gandhi's spectacular campaign for independence (TIME, Jan. 6, et seq.). They found Sir John's own characteristic answer in his last section-section 369 of Part Twelve, the one ending, "All of which we submit for Your Majesty's gracious consideration." It opens magnificently thus...
...France, wine-tasters sip wines, let their tongues tell them whether the fluid is bound for a plebian carafe or a gentleman's cellar. Were it not for whiskey-tasters England's famed blenders would be unable to produce a uniformly good product year in, year out. On equally skilled men depends the fact that all vermilion dyes are uniform, that azure satins are azure. But foibles of the color-matcher's eyes, which tire quickly, make them expensive to their employers...
Fairfax of Merchants & Miners Transportation Co. groped out of Boston Harbor, Baltimore-bound. Turning down the coast past Scituate, Mass., she quickened her pace. Just at dusk her 76 passengers, including Vice President D. R. McNeil of the company, and the crew of 80, felt her swerve, stagger. Rushing on deck they saw a horrifying fiery geyser - "like an umbrella of flame"; - rise skyward at the bow, found themselves enveloped in it. Their vessel had rammed 504,000 gal. of hightest gasoline, cargo of the Pinthis, owned by Lake Tankers Corp. (Mallory Lines subsidiary). For a roaring moment...