Word: leatherizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggestion that the game is for the feet alone, and not for the hands, is a mere quibble; for all sensible observers will agree that the use of the hands makes the game more exciting and interesting. Again, we do not hesitate to claim the superiority of the leather ball over the rubber one. The former, besides retaining the air better, can be kicked both farther and straighter, and will last a much longer time. In setting forth the advantages of the Rugby rules and ball, we only ask a fair, impartial hearing from the Association. The fact that Harvard...
When the starting whistle blows at 2 o'clock, for five of the Crimson booters it will be the last time that college for touches leather. Five others, Juniors, will be playing their second Yale game, while only one, a Sophomore, will face the Blue attack for the first time...
Patriotically done up in red, white, and blue ribbons, and embedded in a leather-covered, plush-lined box, the trophy was presented to the Harvard Baseball Team by the Waseda University Baseball team of Japan. Three bats support the bowl, while a ball is perched on each handle of the chalice...
...Small leather boxes containing quotations from Scripture...
Such an act is clearly Fascist. Its loudest champions have been Britain's No. 1 Blackshirt Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, Tory Die-Hard Winston Churchill and the Commissioner of London's Metropolitan Police, leather-lunged Lord "Boom" Trenchard. Against the Act gentle Quakers have industriously murmured. Socialist penfolk like H. G. Wells accuse His Majesty's Government of either having the jitters or consciously preparing...