Word: leatherizing
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...firm has the secret formula for the non-sweating cement, and trusts no one but its own masons with the mixing of it. The balls add to the game's speed and cost: they are golf-ball size but made like baseballs-tightly wound cotton thread covered with leather. They shoot around the cell-like court so fast that experts judge the ball's speed not only by the eye but by the "bock" sound it makes hitting the wall. Racquets, thin-shafted and fragile, are also costly. The late Charles Williams, regarded as one of the greatest...
...Brown, associate professor of Economics at St. Louis University, has analyzed the growth of the National Leather Workers' Association in "Union Policies in the Leather Industry," which will hit the bookstands in March...
...record of Southern life, 1861-65, they are worth a stack of yarns like Gone With the Wind. The title tells only part of the story, for some of the best letters are Susan Black-ford's. Prices were high, she explained: calico, $2.50 a yard; leather boots, $50 a pair. Little Willie, their son, was naughty but "so funny": he sang "Dixie" when he went to bed at night instead of going off to sleep as he should...
...exaggerating altogether. There is considerable room for new Freshmen with a hankering for trackish traditions like wintergreen, warm-packed loam and cinders, sweatsuits and leather running shoes. The current Freshman team has more openings than a hunk of swiss cheese, and the Varsity has a few cavities, too, particularly in the sprint department. Freshman veterans are eligible to fill these cavities...
...started chasing me across the rug a nice rug it was too. i retired underneath a deep leather couch but he was very unpleasant and crawled on his hands and knees mind you after me very boorish he was. he made a scene and a lot of other men stood around and gawped. i was embarrassed...