Word: leatherizing
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...Dowse Institute under the auspices of which the lecture series is being given, was founded many years ago by Thomas Dowse, wealthy Cambridge leather merchant and book binder. It the early years of the Institute, the lectures were conducted by widely known speakers such as Emerson, Lowell, and Wendell Phillips. During the war, the lectures were discontinued, but they were revived two years ago, and Professor George Lyman Kittredge of Harvard and Professor Glover of Cambridge University, England, were the lecturers for the past two series...
...next day the second match was played and this turned out to be a different story, due to the fact that it was played under the Rugby rules. Instead of a round rubber ball, as had been used the previous day, a leather covered oval ball, much after the manner of the present day football, was put into service. The result was a scoreless...
...leather covered sphere came hurtling through...
...familiar leather surfaced guard with which most teams have already been equipped at very considerable expense must be discarded or else covered with a top layer of one inch felt to save whole squads from suffering the prescribed penalty of disqualification...
...befuddled officials the mootest point of all is that of shoulder pads. There is a new rule which specifically states that shoulder guards must be as carefully padded on the outside as on the inner surface. The shoulder guard generally used has a leather surface with felt an inch thick on the under side. The majority of teams have already been equipped with this style of guard at considerable expense. And as far as is known, no sports goods manufacturing company has manufactured or is manufacturing a guard which complies with the new rule. And, according to that new rule...