Word: leatherizing
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...bread, bless, we beseech Thee, Thy servant Richard Austen Butler in his gigantic task for our country this coming week." Two days later, to the traditional cries of "Yah, Yah, Yah!", Rab Butler will step to the clerks' table in the House of Commons, open the old red leather dispatch box once used by Gladstone and lay down the budget which will shape the British economy for the coming year...
...Hitler was always good to me"), the court last week awarded one used Hitler suitcase, five copies of Mein Kampf, a silver-framed photograph, three mediocre watercolors painted by Der Fiihrer himself. The state of Bavaria won custody of three party emblems bearing Hitler's name, plus his leather briefcase and a few of his staff-meeting doodles. Frau Anni promptly announced that she would sell her cherished legacy to buy a café. Bavaria did not say what it planned to do with its inheritance...
...contradict fashion if one day you like your skirts severely straight and the next, turn around and prefer them buoyantly full. Fashion this spring is an individual, and the gray prints and leather pumps have a look that proclaim them fashion for springtime...
...line is leather," said the English salesman to the American in the railway carriage "What's yours?" The average-looking American looked up and smiled. "Truth," he replied...
...Palestine cave seven years ago (TIME, Oct. 31, 1949), archeologists have been looking with renewed diligence for more. Seventeen months ago, in a cave at Wadi Qumran, in Jordan, a band of diggers found a stone writing table almost 2,000 years old, and strewn about it scraps of leather and papyrus, enough to fill several bushel baskets. The Hebrew script on the papyrus was minuscule,'and many fragments could be read only with the help of an infrared camera. But the texts, when examined, turned out to cover almost half of the Old Testament. Their date, from...