Word: leatherizing
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...Starling had been out quail-shooting and brought back several birds. The President, in starched collar, yellow necktie, leather waistcoat, green mackinaw coat, riding trousers, laced boots and ten-gallon hat, motored ten miles to a backwoods cabin where a Dr. W. B. Hodge, one Clyde Moorehead and one Wirt Hatcher, practiced gunners, awaited him with four setter dogs. The President patted the dogs, loaded his gun, marched into the scrub-oak and broom-sage. Hosts, guides and detectives followed, gunless...
...Other industries, which are not comprised in these great groups-food industries, leather working, rubber, pottery, porcelain, glass, paper, etc.-might be cited to illustrate how home productions have become so advanced that . . . there remain great surpluses in many cases for foreign markets...
...regard to the binding of new books purchased abroad, these are bound in the country from which they are purchased, in the case of France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. These foreign books are usually bound in leather, Within the last fifteen years leather has been replaced in the binding of books in America by buckram cloth, a library cloth in various colors, which is exceptionally long-wearing, and must come up to government standards, maintained by yearly tests...
...prodding of the Grand Rabbi began, and the rude inspectors noted two small leather boxes which he carried with particular care. If it is difficult to estimate the Grand Rabbi's reactions, it is easy to understand the immediate suppositions of the young inspectors. "Open those boxes," they cried. "No," answered the Grand Rabbi. "I won't. Not those." The young men therefore opened the boxes themselves and discovered in them the laws of Moses but not a single diamond. They were the Grand Rabbi's precious tvillim...
...Phylacteries (little leather boxes), which are worn during certain prayers, one on the left arm, the other on the forehead, by Orthodox Jews in obedience to Deuteronomy, XI, 18: "Lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes." Among other scriptural writings contained in the tvillim are these: "This is done because of that which the Lord did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt" (Exodus, XIII, 6), and "What nation is there so great, that hath...