Word: lombard
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...yellowing vellum brightened by red, blue, and gold Gothic capitals. The musty savour of the rush-strewn cubicles still adheres to a leaf from the manuscript of St. Jerome, so old that it is little more than an ash held together by the heavy letters. A textbook by Peter Lombard, the almost illegible sermons of Duns Scotus, and Luther's German Catechism are all there as a symbol of the care with which the learning of ancients was kept alive during the middle ages...
...endeavor is made to collect books, not for their rarity but for their usability. Books dealing with principles, such as Dunbar's "History of Banking" and Bragehot's "Lombard Street" are especially useful for they are applicable year after year. Standard textbooks on business, problem books by members of the Faculty, and similar publications are frequently added to the collection. The rapidity of business changes and the constant stream of new developments, however, soon make many of these volumes out of date for the inquirer who is making any intensive study of some phases of business...
Finally, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York announced an advance of its rediscount rates from 4 to 4½%. This occurrence provided a live topic of conversation both in Wall and Lombard Streets. Certain features attending it, because of their fundamental connection with the future course of American business, deserve close attention...
...books which Mr. Plimpton has lent to the College Library bear on religious education--manuscripts of the Fathers of the Church, Ambrose, Augustine, Isidore of Seville, Peter Lombard, and many others, which were the means of instruction for the clergy, and catechisms, primers, and little manuscript compendiums of doctrine of the 13th and 14th centuries, designed for the use of children and those ignorant of Latin...
...members of the teams are as for, lows 1922 R. T. Slogan. G. P. Rick ford. J. K. Lombard, and Ralph Bord alternate 1923 W. E. Stearns. M. P. Lichauco. L. J. Young, and S. R. Redmond, alternate 1924 R. S. Bowers Holden Furber. R. M. Morrison, and M. J. Shagan, alternate, 1925 A. N. Levinsky, J. L. Swayee Jr. C. D. Weasson and H. P. Sharp, alternate...