Word: leatherizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Defying God, if He exists, to strike one dead, is all very well for the smalltime, itinerant atheist. But hamfisted, leather-lunged Emelyan Yaroslavsky is the biggest shot in world atheism. As the walloping chairman of the Soviet League of Militant Godless, Comrade Yaroslavsky pulls the levers of a Juggernaut that rumbles on night and day, crunching Russian churches, chasing priests from their holes, destroying icons and uprooting holy matrimony-but not fecund wedlock...
Loyally Bishop Meisser's flock stuck by him. Fortnight ago he went out to a mountain village to preach. Eight hundred hulking woodsmen filled the pockets of their leather breeches with stones and dared Nazi Storm Troopers to interfere. Then last week the whisper was passed about Munich: "Go to the Mattiaskirche on Thursday evening. Bishop Meisser will have something...
...might be the first move in a conspiracy between her servants and outsiders to steal her bell-less oxen. She sent her men out straightway, rounded up five Suk natives and had them flogged vigorously with a tire. When the tire broke, she herself brought up a leather razor strop and the last man was flogged with that. Seventeen days later he died in hospital. Major and Mrs. Selwyn and five servants were jailed. Utterly finished, the major contracted blackwater fever in jail and died too. Mrs. Selwyn fell ill but recovered. Last week she and her servants were...
First they presented her with a fat, leather-bound book bulging with press comments on her resignation. Then one of them clapped a hand on her shoulder and solemnly announced: "You're under arrest." In silence she was led up to one of the tables, cleared of everybody save a judge. The charge against Miss Abbott: deserting 43,000,000 U. S. children. One by one her workers took the stand to give testimony. Attorney for Defendant Abbott offered in evidence the fact that her name was not listed in 500 Delinquent Women (TIME, Oct. 1). By unanimous vote...
...quarter bills to keep a record of the amount of glass for which the student must pay. The Book is an important part of the inauguration ceremony as presented under the regimes of the colonial presidents and President Conant and was rebound last year in heavy morocco leather by the library bindery which is hidden away in the same part of the building. This book has the drawing for the seal which we know today, but the word "Veritas" did not appear on the metal seal until 1885 because the sealcutters' art was before then not sufficiently developed...