Word: gutenberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale University Library a student handed in a call slip for Yale's Gutenberg Bible, worth $120,000, one of seven of its kind extant in the world. The request was refused...
Christened on the spot by Whitelaw Reid, the Linotype thus had its first commercial demonstration. Within a year or two it was to prove the most important single development in the printer's art since Gutenberg's invention of movable type more than 400 years before. In making the solid slug of type, Mergenthaler's invention opened the mechanical way for the multi-editioned metropolitan newspaper, the flood of books, pamphlets and magazines on which the 20th Century was floated into being...
...Spot. Seeking a logical reason for the frequency of earthquakes along the shores of the Pacific, Dr. Beno Gutenberg of Pasadena presented a thesis that the Pacific Ocean represents a vast area from which Earth has lost 20 miles of outside skin. That "raw spot in Mother Earth's side promises to explain the true nature of Earth's disturbances, the crustal movements appearing to extend along the edges of the skinless areas. We shall never be able to predict the day on which an earthquake will occur. But it is possible that we shall be able...
While all concerned pondered the fact that the skeleton was scattered like the pages of a Gutenberg Bible-the neck in Washington, the tail in Pittsburgh, the head and body in Utah-the Smithsonian made the cataclysmic discovery that its neck and the rest of its specimen were of two different species...
...world's most prolific designer of type (TIME, Nov. 6). Last week, at 70, Fred Goudy had designed his 92nd type face. To celebrate the event Manhattan's National Arts Club gave a reception in his honor, exhibited such typographical curiosities as a leaf from a Gutenberg Bible, an old hat belonging to Mr. Goudy, a gold matrix of a swash "G."* Spectators were informed that never before in the history of typography had anybody cut a matrix of gold. Mr. Goudy chose "G" because it stands for Goudy...