Word: handly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feature of the exhibit is a section demonstrating modern hand-binding as practiced by the University bindery, which annually covers and repairs thousands of volumes for seventy-two Harvard libraries...
...cover of an early manuscript book is a heavy chain, with inch-long links, by which the volume was attached to its shelf in the days before printing had made books plentiful. On the other hand, the exhibit shows, when printing was invented, binders thought that manuscripts were useless and often cut up beautifully illuminated pages to make stiffening for bindings...
Jaques Fevrier, a French pianist as yet unheard in this country will appear as soloist in Ravel's Pianoforte Concerto for the Left Hand, as the Boston Symphony Orchestra presents the sixth pair of concerts of its season in Symphony Hall on Friday afternoon and Saturday evening...
...seems to be no fatal drawback for a pianist to lose his right hand. There have been written for the left hand alone four good pieces with opus numbers by Reger; two finely conceived and well-placed selections of Skriabin, opus 9; etudes by Moszkowski, Saint-Saens, Berens; and also Brahms has set Bach's Chaconne in D minor for violin alone as a study for the left hand...
...later life, but to relax from the rigors of studying and even to make more digestible some of the dining hall meals. Dr. Bock and his associates are in full accord with keeping their undergraduate charges happy by jokes or any other decent means, for happiness and health go hand in hand. But so called humor with a cruel or perverted twist cannot be tolerated here, and the Department is justified in taking every possible step to apprehend the guilty parties and to punish them severly. In short, funny ha-ha is welcome, necessary; funny peculiar is taboo...