Word: leatherizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...studied medicine, went back to Canton to practice. Meanwhile he played or watched hundreds of football games when the best professionals were such characters as Christy Mathewson, Fielding Yost, Walter Okeson, Knute Rockne and Yale's legendary Walter William ("Pudge") Heffelfinger, wearing long bobbed hair instead of leather helmets...
...18th green. Into that pit legend says that Golfer Travis never sent a ball until the semi-finals of the Amateur Championship in 1908. Then it cost him the tide that he never again came close to winning. Garden City's older members, poised comfortably in their leather chairs in the glass-enclosed lounge that runs along behind the famed green, have wondered ever since if they would again look out on a scene which, for pure excitement, could match the Travis tragedy. Last week they looked...
Another early Krans beloved of the colony's descendants showed a fiercelooking Jansonite settler in his Lapland boots, buffalo robe coat, wide leather belt scaring the daylights out of a Plains Indian. Most decorative was a scene of seven scythe-swinging reapers, moving rhythmically over a gigantic wheat field while the women followed behind, gathering and binding the sheaves...
When the flame reaches the leather and the tender foot beneath it, the quiet ends...
...were doing a thriving business in cushions for the hard Festspielhaus seats, trade at the Cafe Bazar was rivaled only by that at a tearoom just opened by Count Ludwig Salm, and thousands of Auslander from everywhere were strolling Salzburg streets in Dirndln (peasant waist, skirt & apron) or Lederhosen (leather shorts with gay suspenders) from Joseph Lanz's smart shop...