Word: leatherizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very few know that it now lies in a miserable state of disrepair, dried out by years of steam heat, so that the ivory inlay has half fallen out of its rosewood case. A very few know that quill tongues are broken and bolstered with felt, that its leather is rotten, that its legs are tied up with string, that its pedals are falling to pieces...
...occasionally stop for a red light, usually goes through it at about 20 miles per hour, while small-shots who have the green light with them jam on their brakes. A bigger-shot, his 8-cylinder car followed by a 4-cylinder containing five secret police in caps and leather overcoats, takes the red lights at about 40 miles per hour, horn screeching as he nears the intersection...
...Sculptor Borglum's biggest, most continuing job, resumed every summer after winters spent on jobs in Texas and intermittent work on Georgia's Confederate Memorial (Stone Mountain) where active operations long since came to a halt. But after ten years of swinging his stocky figure in a leather sling up Mount Rushmore's cliffs, supervising workmen with jackhammers and dynamite, 66-year-old Sculptor Borglum has that memorial near completion. The only remaining Presidential head, that of Theodore Roosevelt, has already been roughed in. His final task will be finding a suitable historical inscription. The 500-word...
With the third chapter-"Doctoring Under Difficulties"-Wild Animal World goes into pure-anecdotage. There are fascinating tales of the infirmary: how cataracts were taken from the eyes of a rhinoceros; how a carrying case had to be invented for porcupines; how leather boots had to be made for a young elephant with weak ankles. And from the fund of experience laid up during 38 years at the zoo, Dr. Ditmars recalls the time a lion named Simba missed his birthday party because day before he had painted himself pea green by rolling around in his freshly painted cell. Once...
...Federal District Court in Illinois last week, Dr. Andrew C. Kelly sued the Mercyville Sanatorium and St. Joseph's Mercy Hospital, both of Aurora, for $200,000. While a patient, Dr. Kelly tried to kill himself, was restrained, he claimed, by use of leather and metal straps "so unskilfully adjusted" as to cause his hand to be permanently crippled...