Word: microfilmed
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...your April 30 article "Treasure in Microfilm," reference is made to the "4th Century Codex Vaticanus, a Greek Bible with the oldest and most important extant copy of the New Testament...
...scholars at St. Louis University opened a medieval studies curriculum two years ago, they found themselves long on students and qualified professors, but short on the materials of church scholarship. Father Lowrie J. Daly, 37-year-old instructor in medieval history, suggested that his superiors ask permission to make microfilm copies of as many as 42,000 rare and ancient manuscripts in the Vatican Library, which some U.S. librarians have called "the most important manuscript library in the western world." Not very hopefully, St. Louis' President Paul C. Reinert forwarded a request through church channels to the Vatican librarians...
...successive editions appeared, Nurse Carmon contributed more & more of her own experience, and in the eleventh printing, DeLee formally listed her as coauthor. Now in its 15th printing, Obstetrics for Nurses is the most widely used text of its kind in the U.S., has been translated into Chinese (on microfilm) and Spanish, has sold nearly 300,000 copies...
Even city officials were thinking about going underground. Los Angeles city planners were looking into the possibility of making three proposed underground garages bombproof enough to shelter 90,000 people in an attack. The county board of supervisors ordered immediate construction of an $80,000 storage room for microfilm records, and tax assessors worked out new rates for dugout-equipped homes...
...surprising fact is that no really first-rate book has yet been written about the juiciest subject imaginable for a U.S. literary biography. The raw materials for the job are massive and easily available. Among them: Mencken's 88 scrapbooks of clippings; the Princeton University Library's microfilm record of more than 10,000 letters written by Mencken; the Congressional Library's long-playing recordings on which Mencken, under questioning, ranges over his whole life. Young (28) ex-Marine Manchester enjoyed a further advantage: until a stroke laid Mencken low in the fall of 1948, he cooperated...