Word: leatherizing
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...Elmore Morgenthaler). An average student, he is physically clumsy and slow-but that didn't matter. College scouts were on his trail. The University of Arkansas seemed to have the inside track. Until two weeks ago, he played in stocking feet, or leather shoes. Arkansas won his friendship by finding two pairs of size 16 tennis shoes for him to wear...
...engineers, the Northrop arm is a plastic and aluminum affair weighing half a pound to a pound less than previous arms. Other advantages: a new wrist mechanism (for arms amputated below the elbow) which makes it possible to rotate the wrist in either direction; a steel cable, replacing smelly leather thongs; an improved elbow lock. The Northrop leg, similarly, is lighter, has a suction socket and locking knee...
...served on silver salvers in a paneled, specially heated room. Fuel Minister Emanuel Shin-well issued an immediate denial, announced plans for a simple ceremony in the un-paneled, unheated Ministry headquarters, which cannot hold more than 50 people. A single toast would be proposed while Shinwell presented a leather-bound copy of the Coal Industry Nationalization Act to plump, pink Lord Hyndley (rhymes with kindly), who will run the mines as National Coal Board Chairman. Afterward Lord Hyndley, 63, would climb to the roof of his Berkeley Square office building and hoist the Coal Board's new flag...
...Paris press took up the cry, pointed out that the chiffoniers collect on an average each day 400 tons of paper, 200 tons of rags and 50 tons of leather, rubber, bones, iron, tin. copper and lead...
...their paneled board room on the 13th floor of Los Angeles' Pacific Finance Building, the directors of California's Consolidated Steel Corp. gathered last week. After they had settled themselves in their cushioned leather chairs, President Alden Gallup Roach brought up routine business; a 25? common dividend was declared...