Word: leatherized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bound in rough grey paper with a vellum back and leather label stamped in gold. The first two-thirds deal with Lawrence's days as a private in the Air Force, which he joined in August 1922 after resigning his rank as Political Adviser in the Colonial Office. The remainder tells of his less harrowing days in the Cadet Corps. To protest the betrayal of the Arab cause at the Peace Conference, at which his promises to Arab leaders were broken, Lawrence refused his Colonial Office salary for six months, worked in an architect's office, went hungry...
Formal shoes include patent leather pumps and the straight plain toe patent-leather shoe...
Jovial, grey-haired, leather-faced Major Tuttle was a Boston lawyer before he joined the Army in the War. His three high-school horses, Vast, Si Murray and Olympic, can each do 135 different tricks. Each trick has a technical name like the piaffé (trotting on one spot), the passage (highly accentuated trot with slight forward movement). His horses get neither beatings for punishment nor carrots for reward. The best that they can hope for is an occasional pat. The immobility of a good dressage rider is actually an illusion. He achieves his effects by shifts of weight...
...Librarians have wondered for years why the leather bindings of books in frequent use last longer than those which are rarely called for. Experiments by Chemists R. W. Frey and C. W. Beebe of the U. S. Department of Agriculture convinced them that salt from sweaty hands acts as a preservative...
...Fourth Folio on view, published in 1685, has the original leather binding, darkened almost to a mahogany color...