Word: leatherizing
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Once more in command, Old Guardsmen were prepared to force fresh votes on lumber, aluminum, hides, shoes, leather, oil?all the items on which the Coalition had won primary victories, and on which it now faced ultimate defeat...
Handball. Foundation of all ball games. No net. Small inflated rubber ball, leather gloves. Alfred Banuet, a young Latin who has been beating all the hand-ball-playing San Francisco policemen at the four-walled game, went to St. Louis last week to defend his national title, played circles around his opponents, put out George Nelson of Baltimore in the finals...
...Pianist Hans Earth, to show the development of the pianoforte of the past, present, future. It began with the 1750 period and the harpsichord; the instrument played was an exact model of Handel's and Beethoven's, with plectrums made of real crows' quills and leather. Then came a group for the modern grand piano which differs from the harpsichord in that it has padded hammers which produce tones by striking (rather than plucking at) tightly stretched metal strings...
...Ihlamour, suburb of Constantinople on the Asiatic side of the Bosporus, source of drinking water for generations has been a single deep narrow well in the market place. Housewives and porters gathered there every morning to draw water for their daily needs. There one Yusuf Hanoum, leather worker, sat down to rest last week, while his pet duck, name unknown, hopped up on the well curb :to keep him company. A stray dog frightened him. With an agitated squawk Yusuf's duck fell into Ihlamour's well. Unable to extricate his pet, Leather Worker Hanoum dropped half...
...cell corridor of Wandsworth Gaol last week a white jacketed hospital orderly nodded pleasantly to a group of British Justices of the Peace seated uncomfortably on folding chairs. He then unpacked a stethoscope and a bottle of antiseptic from his medical case. Meanwhile, an assistant keeper had attached leather thongs to the three points of a six-foot wooden triangle, set up before an iron pillar...