Word: leatherizing
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Jovial, grey-haired, leather-faced Major Tuttle was a Boston lawyer before he joined the Army in the War. His three high-school horses, Vast, Si Murray and Olympic, can each do 135 different tricks. Each trick has a technical name like the piaffé (trotting on one spot), the passage (highly accentuated trot with slight forward movement). His horses get neither beatings for punishment nor carrots for reward. The best that they can hope for is an occasional pat. The immobility of a good dressage rider is actually an illusion. He achieves his effects by shifts of weight...
...Librarians have wondered for years why the leather bindings of books in frequent use last longer than those which are rarely called for. Experiments by Chemists R. W. Frey and C. W. Beebe of the U. S. Department of Agriculture convinced them that salt from sweaty hands acts as a preservative...
...Fourth Folio on view, published in 1685, has the original leather binding, darkened almost to a mahogany color...
...studied medicine, went back to Canton to practice. Meanwhile he played or watched hundreds of football games when the best professionals were such characters as Christy Mathewson, Fielding Yost, Walter Okeson, Knute Rockne and Yale's legendary Walter William ("Pudge") Heffelfinger, wearing long bobbed hair instead of leather helmets...
...18th green. Into that pit legend says that Golfer Travis never sent a ball until the semi-finals of the Amateur Championship in 1908. Then it cost him the tide that he never again came close to winning. Garden City's older members, poised comfortably in their leather chairs in the glass-enclosed lounge that runs along behind the famed green, have wondered ever since if they would again look out on a scene which, for pure excitement, could match the Travis tragedy. Last week they looked...