Word: leatherizing
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Illustrating the gradual progress of bookbinding, the display contains many of the most valued items in the Treasure Room of Widener, including one book studded with gems, early manuscripts with wood-board covers, unique embroidered bindings, and examples of the leather work of some of the greatest early European book designers...
...person out of every 50 in the U. S. last week bundled up too heavily, paid for a ticket, sat on a hard bench to watch 22 ardent young men in jerseys and leather helmets push an ellipsoidal ball back-&-forth within a 120-yd. space. Some went frantic at the results...
...which its text is besprinkled, over the de Jongs, Zwart Pietes, van der Bergs, van Reenens who make up its confusing cast of characters. But once these obstacles are hurdled, the surviving reader can settle down to a solidly written, if a little protracted, account of pioneer hardship and leather-breeched love, its scene one of the great mass migrations of modern history...
...very few know that it now lies in a miserable state of disrepair, dried out by years of steam heat, so that the ivory inlay has half fallen out of its rosewood case. A very few know that quill tongues are broken and bolstered with felt, that its leather is rotten, that its legs are tied up with string, that its pedals are falling to pieces...
...occasionally stop for a red light, usually goes through it at about 20 miles per hour, while small-shots who have the green light with them jam on their brakes. A bigger-shot, his 8-cylinder car followed by a 4-cylinder containing five secret police in caps and leather overcoats, takes the red lights at about 40 miles per hour, horn screeching as he nears the intersection...