Word: leatherizing
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McGonegal's one bother was what to do about a diamond ring he wore on his left hand. If he got killed, it should go back to his family. It had been his meal ticket on critical fiscal occasions. McGonegal made a small leather pouch, sewed the ring in it and hung it around his neck against his dog tags. Then he felt better...
...operations officer, Captain Philip Rognile, took over the radio. "Frogs, frogs. I say frogs. All right, stupid, I mean tanks," he yelled at someone at the other end. A leather-faced farmer from Tennessee, Sergeant Robert Riggina, chimed in dryly, "Them tanks is all right. F Company woulda been kilt or captured yesterday if them tanks hadn't come...
...contain recreational facilities to suit all tastes. In the large Phillips Brooks Room there will be bridge and ping-pong tables, a billiard table, a concert grand piano, a radio-phonograph, and a large floor space for dancing. In the smaller room opening off the main lounge are comfortable, leather upholstered chairs and several window seats. On the center table in this room will be placed current magazines, daily out-of-down and local newspapers, and stationery with writing materials...
...instrument is a sort of Pleistocene piano. The true ancestor of the piano is not the harpsichord but the dulcimer, a more primitive stringed instrument played like a xylophone, with little hammers held in the hands. The harpsichord's strings are not hammered but plucked with quills or leather plectra (picks...
Bakelite and Boar Bristles. John Challis makes his harpsichords in a two-floor studio above an Ypsilanti dress shop. Two assistants, who have been with him for years, help him fit together the intricate combination of carved hardwoods, leather plectra, metal strings and frames, ivory keys and Siberian boar-bristle springs out of which a fine harpsichord is concocted. A slow, painstaking craftsman, Challis turns out only about eight harpsichords a year, at prices ranging from $400 to $2,700. So far, wartime shortages of materials have not affected his output...