Word: tome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...varying from 22 ft. to 28 ft., with shroud lines running from the rim of the fabric to a harness worn around the body of the jumper. The parachute idea is credited to Leonardo da Vinci, mathematician and scientist as well as painter and sculptor, in 1495 (in his tome Codex Atlanticus...
Last week the Austrian Institute of Genealogy published the result of the labors of Dr. Hoefflinger, B. N.-a monumental tome grandiloquently entitled Lexicon Illegitimorum Europaeorum (Dictionary of Illegitimate Europeans...