Word: leatherizing
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...guinea pig all week, running Coast Guard plays from the tricky "T" formation that the New Londoners employ, against the Varsity defenses. Harlow, as usual, devoted a major part of the drill to pass defense, for the Coasties' Sid Vaughn is expected to fill the air with leather on Saturday. Vaughn's tosses have accounted for six of the nine Coast Guard touchdowns thus for this season...
From his excursion to the Paris Peace Conference, handsome Foreign Minister Dr. Karl Gruber returned to Vienna with the undimmed conviction that he was Austria's brightest young statesman. About the first thing he encountered, back in Austria, was a band of irate Tyrolese in leather shorts, who called him a traitor and spat on him (because he had agreed to South Tyrol's so-called autonomy under Italian tutelage). Gruber knocked down one of his assailants, but the homecoming was spoiled...
There, this week, amid the old leather and the bright brass, the biggest deal in aviation history was being completed; out of that roc's-egg deal would hatch the biggest aviation company in the world. Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp., controlled by Aviation Corp. (AVCO), was being merged with Lockheed Aircraft Corp...
...team's scrimmage against the Jayvees was a hell-bent-for-leather affair which featured good ball-handling, in view of the sloppy weather, on the part of all the "C" team backs. Players who scrimmaged against the Junior Varsity were as follows...
...that infraction, even though school authorities had been warned of his condition, Anthony Lombardi was stripped, tied down and beaten three times with a broad leather strap. When he complained that he was sick again, nobody believed him. But last week he was under an oxygen tent in Colorado General Hospital...