Word: leatherbound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visiting Swiss Theologian Oscar Cullmann (TIME, March 23) described the subject of his lecture at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary last week. Lutheran Cullmann was giving the public a first detailed and fascinating report on the so-called Gospel of St. Thomas, one of 44 Coptic manuscripts in leatherbound papyrus books found in 1946 in a tomb in upper Egypt some 60 miles from the city of Luxor...
...quiet, colonial atmosphere, are glad that their town is not growing by leaps & bounds. One of the things they like best is the small, one-story stone building on a peaceful street called the Pequot Library. There, among thrillers and romances, Southporters could find row after row of ancient, leatherbound volumes mostly describing life in colonial times. The old books had been there for years, and people enjoyed browsing through them, though few of them seemed to give the old books much serious thought...