Word: leatherized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. James A. Ten Eyck, 86, since 1903 rowing coach at Syracuse University; of coronary thrombosis; in Miami, Fla. A professional oarsman whose first sliding seat was greased leather sewn on his trunks, Ten Eyck once rowed his wife around Manhattan, at 65 rowed from Syracuse to Albany to prove his fitness, at 80 rowed in shells with men young enough to be his great-grandsons...
...intervening 726 pages are only indirectly Reeves's story. In that instant there leaps into his mind the tormented figure of Jeremiah, the prophet of doom, who in the reign of King Josiah had leaned against a pillar in the Temple and stared at a leather amulet on his wrist as Reeves had stared at his wrist watch. The rest of the story is really Jeremiah's. It follows him back to his lonely childhood outside Jerusalem, through his exile, apostasy, agony, to his final peace. His wife, like Reeves's wife, had died in Egypt. Because...
Eliot boxers will square off with Leverett in the first round of the inter-House boxing tournament in the Indoor Athletic Building this afternoon at 4 o'clock, with Dudley slated to take on the Dunster leather-pushers at 4:30 o'clock...
...hoary, leather-faced council members and First Syndic (president) of the tiny 190-sq. mi. territory of Andorra, the world's oldest republic, which nestles atop the Pyrenees between Spain and France, gathered in solemn conclave last week to decide whether to admit to their country a tough-mugged gentleman who styled himself Alex Abraham Sikorski, alias "Kid Tiger," onetime trigger man for Gangster Al Capone...
Divorced. Dmitri Pavolvitch Romanoff, Grand Duke of Russia, co-assassin with Prince Felix Youssoupov of Rasputin; from Her Serene Highness Princess Anna Ilyinski, formerly Audrey Emery, inheritor of $6,000,000 from the leather fortune of Cincinnati's John Josiah Emery; in Bayonne, France...