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Word: leatherized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...approached, the doors were swung open by electricity and the Ambassador drove into a 350 footlong, marble-walled underground chamber, brilliantly lighted by bronze lamps. From this chamber the Ambassador was directed through a short, narrow tunnel into a huge, copper-lined elevator outfitted with ten comfortable leather seats. The elevator ascended a shaft bored through the heart of the mountain for 400 feet. At the top M. François-Poncet emerged to behold the new eyrie of Germany's strange, solitary master...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Fuhrer's Nest | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...tall soldiers put on their leather helmets, marched off. But when they arrived at the front, the war was over: Prussia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIECHTENSTEIN: Hoary War | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...identity of the hero of this hell-for-leather ballad stumped the Information Please experts a few Tuesdays back, but hundreds of thousands of radio fans, young and old, could instantly have whooped out his name - The Lone Ranger! Hi-Yo, Silver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hi-Yo Bond! | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

Most diplomas nowadays are in book form, sometimes with leather covers. Price range: 5? for an elementary school certificate, 25? for a high-school diploma, $1.50 for a college "sheepskin" (often paper), up to $10 for a de luxe doctor's or honorary degree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Diploma Business | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...announcer's patent-leather voice was gliding over the air-waves. He spoke in a voice that was hushed with respect. "Music by Chopin . . arranged by Liszt . . . played by Paderewski!" And then the Master began to let his fingers ripple up and down the keyboard with a technique and tone that captivated the countless thousands of Harvard men tuned in at the moment. But many a listener heard at one time or another during the program a slowly increasing buzz. Was the immortal Paderewski executing a deft tremolo with the lower tones? Was the discord a modernistic tone-poem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BELOW THE BELT | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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