Word: glue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fish glue is used in sizing and general repair work. Nobody quite knows what sizing is. When people are asked if they wish to have some sizing done, they generally say yes. And it goes on the bill...
Harvard's line told the story. It opened great holes through which Don McNicol ploughed with consummate ease (see cut). It stopped the Army dead in its tracks after the first period, and in the persons of triple-treat Loren MacKinney and glue-fingered Don Forte it contributed mightily to the Crimson's offensive potency...
...list of the Bindery's supplies is an impressive one. Stored away at the present time are 24,000 pounds of binders board, seven miles of bookbinding cloth, and 4,000 pounds of paper. Glycerin, a vital component of book-binding glue, is also used in explosives; for this reason the Bindery obtained three years' supply of glue--one and a half tons--so that its demands would not conflict with those of the OPM and national defense...
After a thin coating of glue on the back of the book has dried, the book is "rounded" by beating with a hammer. It is then placed in a machine which presses the pages together in such a manner that the covers of the finished book will lie flush with the binding of the "spine", or back of the volume...
...Bindery's work is not limited to bookbinding alone. Under the direction of Fiske, who became manager, the Bindery has made extensive tests in such fields as the acid content of paper, flexible vs. hard glue, and particularly the tanning of book leathers. Some of these tests have doubtless been of great value to the bookbinding industry in general...