Word: manuscripts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hatch '98, Professor of the Literature and Interpretation of the New Testament. Episcopal Theological School, to obtain photographs of the minatures in the manuscript Codex Hierosol 14 in the Greek Patriarchal Library in Jerusalem...
...Repartee, and Tu Quoque." Once an inveterate golfer and left handed cricketer, he now, according to his own statement has "abandant all other athletic interests in order to urge the adoption of new sports, such as, pelota, kif-kif and the pengo. (Especially the latter.)" He possesses the original manuscript of Bishop Heber's famed hymn, "From Greenland's Icy Mountains." Other books: Argonaut and Juggernaut, Who Killed Cock Robin?, Discursions on Travel, Art and Life, Be fore the Bombardment...
...Bowdoin Prizes: Five prizes are open for competition, only to undergraduates who do not hold an academic degree or have not fulfilled the requirements therefore, and to others who are candidates for the degree of A.B. or S.B. in Harvard University. Each manuscript must be delivered to 17 University Hall. It should be submitted under an assumed name. The winners of the prizes will receive, in addition to the sum of money, bronze medals, and their names will be printed on the Commencement Programme...
...During the War she worked on the problem of food substitutes. Her study sent her to old cook books. Collecting them became a hobby. Now she has 4,000, largest collection of its kind, which she is giving to the New York Academy of Medicine. Oldest specimen is a manuscript, written about 870 A.D., of Apicius De re Coquinaria (On Cookery), which collates some of the ancient recipes the Romans considered choice. Ancient cookery differed little from modern. Roast pork and apples was a Roman, dish, also duck and turnip. The Romans had no sugar, used honey. Honey and cheese...
...blindness : he wears thick spectacles, sometimes a black patch over his left eye. He cannot read without a magnifying glass. When he writes, he wears a white jacket with the arms of the City of Dublin embroidered on the breast pocket; uses a large red pencil. Friends reread his manuscript to him, which he corrects many times. His proofs, too, surfer, even to the fifth or sixth revision. Domestic, shy, Joyce rarely leaves home except for the opera or to dine at the famed Trianon Restaurant. Poor most of his life, he is now subsidized by an anonymous Englishwoman...