Word: parchments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first book bred by the massive merger (TIME, Oct. 3, 1927) of Doubleday, Page & Co. and George H. Doran Co.; the first to bear their new stamp of Doubleday, Doran & Co. It was written by Booth Tarkington, the title Claire Ambler. It was bravely bound in special parchment paper; first sample of a luxurious edition published to signalize properly the inauguration of a vast new power in U. S. publishing...
Synagogs Sacked. Men students burst in the doors of six synagogs at Oradia Mare and Cluj. Young women students not only helped them plunder the sacred Arks in which the long parchment Scrolls of the Law were kept, but assisted when these scrolls were stripped from their valuable, gold-encrusted rollers and publicly "soiled"? before the eyes of lamenting Jews...
...that the passengers may have an opportunity to stretch their legs and see something of Cleveland's famous Air Port." Souvenirs. Brighter than a boast of being a "first air tourist" is the ticket Thos. Cook & Son have ordered for their first flight. It "will be printed on parchment paper and will be about the size and general appearance of college diplomas. The members of this pioneer tour can then frame their tickets and keep them as souvenirs. A special sticker for the handbags of the flying tourists is also being prepared in orange and black. . . ." Decorum. Precise advice...
Another interesting exhibition is a copy of Ovid's works complete except for the Metamorphoses. This is an Italian manuscript of the fifteenth century written for the most part on paper. About 100 parchment leaves, however, are interspersed among the paper ones. Most of these are palimpsets, or parchment which has been used a second time, the first impressions having been obliterated...
...floor is equipped with soundless cork tiles. Other features are the chandeliers which have parchment shades, and the paintings set in the front of the room at the left. A blank, white wall at the back of the lecture stage is used for the screen...