Word: leatherizing
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Most conscripts come from poor peasants or urban families. Military service (as in Asiatic armies) often betters their living standards. The Spanish army gives its soldiers comforts unavailable to many civilians: three solid meals a day, warm clothing, good leather boots, free medical care, even legal aid. Camps and barracks may grow their own vegetables. One motorized artillery regiment just outside Madrid has 400 pigs. Its commander boasts: "Cerdo [pork] is one of the secrets of the fine fighting spirit of my men. Give them cerdo twice a day and a gun, and nobody can stop them...
Philosophy to Leather. For a campus, Yenching bought a summer garden once owned by a Manchu prince. There, among artificial hills and twisting streams, rose bright pagoda-roofed Chinese buildings with classrooms for every subject from philosophy to the manufacture of leather. Harvard, Princeton and Wellesley formed their own Yenching foundations. Money poured in from U.S. philanthropists and Protestant churches...
...have built Halle Brothers Co. into a $39 million-a-year business, and left 82-year-old Samuel Halle the last survivor of the big-name U.S. department-store pioneers. Last week key employees surprised spry Co-Founder Halle with a 60th anniversary luncheon and the gift of a leather desk set -which he can use daily as the still-active chairman of the board...
Alabama's newly elected Governor Cordon Persons carried out his campaign pledge to ban the medieval practice of flaying unruly convicts, publicly burned 30 of the state's heavy, 5-ft. leather lashes. Two others were saved as mementos: one for the state's Department of Archives and History, one for the governor's office...
...Summoned ex-Defense Secretary Louis Johnson to the White House and presented him with the big, leather-bottomed chair Johnson had used at meetings of the Cabinet...