Word: leatherizing
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...single furnished dormitory room costs $5,000 to build and equip; a double room, $10,000. The furniture consists of a brown metal desk with a birch top, a fluorescent desk-lamp, bed form fitting desk-chair, and an easy chair covered with a new simulated leather plastic...
Within the minute, both stepped into the soft-lighted office of the Secretary of State, appearing as though from behind sliding panels from the neatly disguised elevator recesses in his suite. Dean Acheson, who was waiting, waved his two visitors to a soft red leather davenport. At that moment, only his closest personal aide knew they were there. For an hour and 50 minutes, before they departed in the same clandestine fashion, the two chief architects of U.S. defense talked with the chief of diplomatic strategy. They were meeting together because, after months of inaction and hesitation, Harry Truman...
Several antiquity authorities of Fogg Museum and the Department of Semitic Languages will be working for the next few months on the unrolling and translation of a leather parchment scroll brought to Cambridge this week by Archbishop Athanaseus Y. Samuel, Metropolitan of Jerusalem and Transjordan...
...Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, one of the postwar era's longest, most secretive conferences was entering its third year. High above Park Avenue, the deputies of the Big Four Foreign Ministers have been trying to write a peace treaty for Austria. Last week, as they moved into their green leather chairs for their 238th meeting, some news filtered out of Suite A, and it sounded good. There had been some concessions on both sides...
...year-old freshman apparently pulled the trigger accidentally while adjusting his rifle strap, police said last night. According to conflicting reports of eyewitnesses, Zilahy picked up the rifle, a .22 calibre Winchester, and found the leather sling too tight. In either a sitting or kneeling position, he attempted to loosen the sling, they said. The gun discharged, and the bullet lodged in Zilahy's forehead...