Word: leatherizing
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...quiet weekend. For the first time since school began late in September, football players were quietly studying in their rooms. The colorful plaid dresses, the raccoon coats and the leather-bound flasks gathered dust in closets...
...headquarters. Inside, the office is piled high with paintings (Utrillo, Hassam, Dufy, etc.); in one corner is a grand piano which Fox likes to play. But his real fun is what he calls "dealing in special situations." By such deals, Fox has gained control of U.S. Leather Co., holds a dominating, if not controlling, interest in Western Union, has his finger in a handful of other companies, including one which is about to start prospecting for oil in Newfoundland...
...Leather into Gas. A graduate of Harvard in 1929, Fox started selling securities in Boston, and "caught the tail of a toboggan just as it started over the top of the hill." He spent his evenings getting a law degree at Harvard, got his start in real estate in the early '40s, buying low and selling high. One such property was a Manhattan building at 61 Broadway, which he bought at a bargain in 1944, sold...
...days before anybody noticed in the background of The Beheading a strangely familiar bald head, crowned by a dove. Sure enough, it was Pablo Picasso. With closer attention, experts also spotted Salvador Dali in the patent-leather hat of a civil guardsman...
...claimed that the leather had become stiff and "gelatinized." Opening the scroll would be similar to the process of unwrapping a cigar. He finally concluded that it would be feasible to unroll the parchment, although the project involved the danger that it would be harmed. Gettens could not give the Archbishop absolute assurance that the 2,000-year-old leather would not be some-what damaged in the process...