Word: leatherizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sculptor Borglum's biggest, most continuing job, resumed every summer after winters spent on jobs in Texas and intermittent work on Georgia's Confederate Memorial (Stone Mountain) where active operations long since came to a halt. But after ten years of swinging his stocky figure in a leather sling up Mount Rushmore's cliffs, supervising workmen with jackhammers and dynamite, 66-year-old Sculptor Borglum has that memorial near completion. The only remaining Presidential head, that of Theodore Roosevelt, has already been roughed in. His final task will be finding a suitable historical inscription. The 500-word...
With the third chapter-"Doctoring Under Difficulties"-Wild Animal World goes into pure-anecdotage. There are fascinating tales of the infirmary: how cataracts were taken from the eyes of a rhinoceros; how a carrying case had to be invented for porcupines; how leather boots had to be made for a young elephant with weak ankles. And from the fund of experience laid up during 38 years at the zoo, Dr. Ditmars recalls the time a lion named Simba missed his birthday party because day before he had painted himself pea green by rolling around in his freshly painted cell. Once...
...Federal District Court in Illinois last week, Dr. Andrew C. Kelly sued the Mercyville Sanatorium and St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital, both of Aurora, for $200,000. While a patient, Dr. Kelly tried to kill himself, was restrained, he claimed, by use of leather and metal straps "so unskilfully adjusted" as to cause his hand to be permanently crippled...
When news got out eight weeks ago that the Democratic National Committee had sold souvenir campaign books-bound in leather and autographed by the President -for $250 each, and that some of the $700,000 worth of books had been bought by corporations, which are not allowed to contribute to campaign funds, Republican Representative Bertrand H. Snell naturally demanded an investigation (TIME, June 21). Last week, while Representative Snell's resolution remained securely pigeonholed by the House Rules Committee, the subject of the campaign books cropped up again, this time in the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce investigation...
...from the standpoint of Exposition engineering: although the fair is in the very centre of Paris, normal city traffic is not interfered with, passes through subterranean tunnels or overhead bridges which completely avoid exposition structures or traffic. . . . Most irrepressibly Parisian novelty shown: a pair of women's patent leather pumps with the tongues representing Leon Blum wearing a red tie, these shoes priced at 1,000 francs ($37.50) the pair and displayed to the public in a bird cage...