Word: leatherizing
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...registered was about the same as in the previous year, a larger percent was placed by the office, in spite of the fact that there were comparatively few of the manufacturing companies running their training courses, and the condition of business in the textile, shoe and leather industries kept these factories from taking as many beginners as formerly. During the past year there was an increase in the number of calls from investment houses, but only a few of them could be filled because the majority of the men preferred manufacturing and mercantile lines...
...common fear of coming inflation is a table of stocks of basic commodities as of January 1,1923, in the bulletin of the New York Reserve Bank. Compared with January 1, 1922, much smaller stocks were reported of anthracite and bituminous coal, cement, brick, wood pulp, skins, leather, cotton, lamb. Larger stocks were reported in crude petroleum, kerosene, gasoline, beef, pork. Until stocks of commodities generally increase, it may be concluded that consumption is keeping pace with production, and that in consequence inflation is not yet upon...
...announcement by the Trustees of the Dowse Institute of a course of five lectures, by Professor Kittredge at Sanders Theatre on "Five Tragedies of Shakspere", recalls attention to the interesting and fruitful endowment which these lectures represent. Thomas Dowse was a wool-puller and leather-dresser in Cambridge port. He began life with scarcely any schooling; was apprenticed to his trade as a boy, and continued in it until his death at the age of 84; living, unmarried, in rooms above his shop, over whose door a carved lamb was set, not to suggest his inclination to fleece...
...Countless years ago men began to utter disciplined sounds--to talk; long afterwards they began to fashion crude figures on stone or leather or papyrus--to write. The printing press came and added permanence to the thought of the moment. The typewriter followed--and the phonograph--and the camera. Now to photography, motion has been added. Already in the few short years of their existence they have made possible advantages that from our close viewpoint are almost incalculable. The actual scenes of the signing of the Magna Carta or of the landing of Christopher Columbus, or of the winter...
...preliminary games past and the Princeton contest of next Saturday fast approaching, Coach Fisher yesterday sent team A through a brief scrimmage work-out with the second eleven followed by one of the longest signal drills yet held this fall. As darkness settled in the Stadium a new white leather ball, the so-called "ghost-ball", was substituted for the usual pigskin in order that the drill might continue in the twilight...