Word: cordova
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GUILLERMO DAVILA CORDOVA Attorney...
...back as the 12th Century, England imported the best leather from Cordova, Spain, and by the time Chaucer wrote his Canterbury Tales it was natural for an English shoemaker of standing who used the best Cordovan leather to be called a "cordewaner." Later the word became "cordwainer...
...Thanksgiving Day turkey soared to 75? per lb:, 30? above normal. Cities like Nome, Fairbanks and Ketchikan, which lay in a winter's stores in advance, were unworried. But Cordova was rationing condensed milk, six cans to a customer...
...modernity of Madrid was a disappointment to Traveler Tomlinson, but in a newspaper office there (El Sol) he saw some satirical murals by Artist Bagaria that made him think of Goya. By motorbus he went to Toledo, La Mancha, Cordova, Seville, Cadiz, Malaga, Granada. Traveler Tomlinson noted all the proper sights but it was the least thing that set him philosophizing. In Toledo's Escorial he pondered the English novel; at Ubeda a dusty image of Christ in purple silk pants struck a chill into his warm feeling that Spain was more nearly in the right path than...
...open water, a strong wind was whipping up the sea. For four hours, Angler Howell tried to reel his tuna in before handing his 26-oz. hickory rod to his companion, Arthur De Cordova. All through that night, De Cordova, Howell, Captain Thompson and a seaman struggled with the tuna. When dawn broke the great fish was as strong as ever, still swimming away from the boat and resisting all efforts to turn him. Presently a skiff from the Thalia brought food to the men in the launch. They took turns tugging at their tuna all that day when...