Word: vellum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first Alsifilm was whitish and opaque, like a tough vellum paper. This quality suggested its use as a durable medium for writing and printing. Dr. Hauser is now making another kind, from a clay he discovered in California's Death Valley, which is almost completely transparent and waterproof-usable as wrapper for tobacco and foods. He is also experimenting with this type as a possible material for photographic films and automobile windows...
...chemist was astonished. He had put his finger on a whitish deposit covering the inside of a glass vessel not much bigger than a thimble. He expected this substance to crumble at his touch. Instead, it came out intact, like a smooth, tough vellum paper. It stood on his desk, forming a model of the vessel which it had lined...
...historical interest in the group are two 14th century vellum manuscripts in Latin containing some of Europe's first book references to fishing...
...bound in rough grey paper with a vellum back and leather label stamped in gold. The first two-thirds deal with Lawrence's days as a private in the Air Force, which he joined in August 1922 after resigning his rank as Political Adviser in the Colonial Office. The remainder tells of his less harrowing days in the Cadet Corps. To protest the betrayal of the Arab cause at the Peace Conference, at which his promises to Arab leaders were broken, Lawrence refused his Colonial Office salary for six months, worked in an architect's office, went hungry...
...story then begins with the first revival of the arts under Charlemagne, shown in the ancient Rheims Gospel and the "Golden Latin Gospels, called "of Henry the Eighth." Both being of the ninth century, are in Byzantine style, the latter all in letters of burnished gold on purple vellum, is among the most beautiful and important documents here. Of two centuries later, with Byzantine traits still persisting, are the German Gospels from Salzburg...