Word: leatherizing
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Sumner never tried to cajole, amuse or flatter his huge lecture classes, and he never talked down to them. He used to come crashing into the lecture hall like a gladiator into an arena. On the day of the Great Blizzard of '88, he stamped in wearing leather boots. For him, rubber boots connoted pussyfooting. "Gentlemen," he said once, "if Communism ever gets control of this country, you be sure and get on the Committee...
...pupils with canes, crutches, wheel chairs arrived at their new school at East 1 9th and Downing Streets, next to Denver's Children's Hospital, five teachers and a nurse ushered them in. The children sat in its red leather chairs, hobbled up its ramps (just for exercise, the school had a few stairs to its observation tower), found handrails along every wall, adjustable chairs and tables, two lavatories, a drinking fountain and a grassy outdoor playground next to each classroom. Other equipment: arts & crafts shops, sewing machines, two model kitchens...
...textile market, here orders for future delivery-protection against empty shelves-totaled 100,000,000 yards, equal to five weeks' production. The liveliest textile industry, rayon, is producing 23% ahead of the first eight months of 1939, nevertheless maintaining shipments out of inventories, In the sensitive hide and leather markets, sales expanded, and the rush bid hides...
...export. With no passenger trade and with all Scandinavian and Continent traffic suspended, the port was far less bustling than normally, but workers employed (including crews) ran as high as 35,000 per day in August; warehouses were piled with grain, tobacco, flour, tea, rubber, sugar, meat, wool, timber, leather. At Tilbury Docks, which the Germans claimed to have destroyed Aug. 16, patches showed where bombs had struck but about 30 ships lay at berths handling cargo or making ready for sea. Officials admitted that as much traffic as possible had been diverted to safer ports in the west...
...child remained in this cramped position for four weeks while finger and toe grew together, supplied by a common circulation. Then the doctors severed the remaining flesh that bound the toe to the foot, carefully covered the stump with skin. The toe-finger was protected with a leather jacket until completely healed...