Word: leathering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gave glowing reviews of several Abrams art books, for which we are most grateful [Dec. 10]. Your reviewer makes one unfortunate comment when he refers to Vasari's Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects in the boxed edition as having "spines of imitation leather" and suggests that "real cloth would have been classier." The fact is that the spines of these books are indeed genuine leather...
...Trotsky collection is stored in the library stacks in more than 172 black leather cases. Many of the papers, all but those from the period of Stalin's exile, had already been made available to scholars...
Burger pointed to the Justices' nine high-backed leather chairs. Each justice chose his own, and the sizes and styles varied. Some were nearly a foot taller than others. Douglas's was tufted, the otherws were smooth. It looked unseemly, disorderly, Burger said. In the future, only one kind of chair would be available...