Word: leatherized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...door of the Bullion Room its foreman scrutinized the order, then beckoned to his helpers, strapping hairy-chested gnomes in leather aprons who had rolled up their sleeves for action. Striding into the spacious vault they advanced upon a mass of gold roughly eight times as great as the order called for. The bars, neither bright nor corroded, lay in faintly gleaming piles on low wooden trucks with small, rubber-tired wheels. To each truck slated for moving was attached one of the white tags, reading "Federal Reserve Bank...
...leather windbreaker (stained, used) ... 360 rubles 9 pairs silk stockings ... 325 9 badly worn dresses...
...competition is avoided; the child is to compete not against his fellows but against his own previous efforts. Flexible, searching, the Hessian Hills theory (though disclaimed as a theory) was well under way by 1931. With Robert Imandt as shop director, the pupils worked at weaving, metal, wood and leather work, drawing and painting. Elizabeth Moos taught Rhythmics and directed academic work: social sciences, then arithmetic and writing, after these reading and so on. The parents met regularly, joined in school activities. The village of Croton watched a bit suspiciously the hatless, overalled, unrepressed children, dashing down to look...
...Schleicher especially to appease the Reichstag and the populace. Germany's 5,000,000 proletarian unemployed and the uncounted German farmers who need relief will be pleased-General von Schleicher hoped- to have for the first time a minister directly representing them in the Cabinet. Their minister, leather-lunged Dr. Günther Gereke, has been shouting up & down the land for years various proposals for ending unemployment which he calls collectively "The Gereke Plan." During the last Presidential campaign, when Old Paul made no platform speeches whatsoever Dr. Gereke stumped for the President, thus won the appointment...
...complete this job. So twice a year a sizable sum is drawn from the maintenance coffers. As difficult as it may be fore many of the men in the University to overcome the pleasure of thumping along of a cold, wintry day, resoundingly smacking the boards with their thick leather heels, it seems that this will soon be necessary...