Word: leatherizing
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...logs, insulated from the pavement by sand. A thumping band blared out old military marches. Toward midnight a procession entered the square, headed by officers of the University's student dueling corps in their dress uniforms: blue tunics, white breeches, plush tam o'shanters and spurred patent leather jack boots. Behind them came other students and a line of motor trucks piled high with books. More students clung to the trucks, waving flaring torches that they hurled through the air at the log pile. Blue flames of gasoline shot up, the pyre blazed. One squad of students formed...
...Harvard Liberal Club, have decided to support about 350 of the 900 workers at the A. R. Hyde Shoe Company. These laborers have been out on strike for seven weeks in an endeavor to secure "better wages, decent working conditions, and the recognition of the National Shoe and Leather Workers Union...
Against the curving white wall of President Roosevelt's study on the second floor of the White House stands a big black leather couch. It is comfortably low and squashy, holds four grown men. Many long sittings have worn off most of its shine. Before it on the floor lies a tiger- skin rug and within easy reach is a pedestal ashtray. The couch's deep easy pitch not only relaxes the body but loosens the tongue to friendly informal talk. If the World Economic Conference, opening in London June 12, proves a success, it will...
...Great Britain the Budget is an ancient red leather despatch box which rests on a table in the House of Commons and for most of the year serves as a convenient elbow rest for weary orators. In parliamentary language the British Budget is not "presented" but "opened" once a year. No opening is so well attended, for what the box contains vitally affects the pocket of every inhabitant of Great Britain. For the second time in his career, greying, long-necked Neville Chamberlain opened the Budget last week in a speech that took two hours and left most...
...Willie McLean, one of the five Scotsmen on his team, scampered down the left side of Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, took a neat pass from the inside man, gave the large round leather ball a clever kick with the toe of his right shoe. It sailed past Chesney, the New York Americans' goal guard, into the net behind the goal. That was less than two minutes after the second half began but it was enough to win, 1 to 0, the first game of the two-out-of-three series in the final round...