Word: felt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prime Minister, MacDonald stayed with me at Edinburgh and was looking very ill. He had been in bad health because he was working so hard, and all the newspapers were speaking about how ill he was. And when I learned he was traveling about on the underground railway I felt he was taking too much exercise. For instance, on the night he went to the Pilgrims' dinner and delivered a fine speech, after he left the hall he had to take a train to Baker St., then out to near Chequers, where there was an old Ford waiting...
...were crippled birds. Over the tilting continent they limped on raveled wings. Their lifting power was now so impaired, due to the yield of fabrics and skeleton, that they could not attain an elevation of more than 6,500 ft. The bastions ,of the Rockies, therefore, were impassable; they felt obliged to skirt them. The route was changed. Leaving Chicago, they were scheduled to fly, not by way of Cheyenne and Salt Lake City, but to veer south, with Omaha, Dallas and Tucson as their main stopping places on the sky trail to California...
...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...
Last year the membership reached the high mark of 1936, which was such a tax on the facilities that the Governing Board felt it necessary to put into effect for this year a numerical limit of 2000. Anyone who is connected with the University, whether in the student of alumni bodies, or a member of one of the faculties, is eligible to join the Union and may do so by presenting a Bursar's card and signing a membership blank. This may be done at any of the places of registration, or at the Bursar's office...
...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...