Word: leatherizing
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Twenty-two men, one stitched leather ball, and a big patch of grass are all that’s needed for The Game, and have been since it was first played over 100 years...
...Yale Bowl this Saturday amid the ghosts of Dowling, Yovicsin and the thousands of others who have taken the field for both squads in the past 12 decades, the game played will be the same: 22 men trying to get a piece of leather across a line...
...their frustrations, which manifest themselves either in the form of mosh pit violence or stadium screaming. The Worcester Centrum was not a place for the meek this past Tuesday night, as two of the most popular acts in heavy metal brought out many of the skinheaded/long-haired, tattooed, pierced, goateed, leather loving, adrenaline-hunting denizens of the greater New England area. System of a Down and Slipknot shared the headlining slot on the ticket, but with their unrivaled stage-show it was Slipknot who finished the night. A collection of nine Iowans in matching full-body factory suits and unique psycho...
...construction of Currier House. The Currier House shield also discreetly refers to the Currier family. The term “currier” in French describes people who used a curved knife with the sharp edge on the inside to scrape the hair off animal hides to prepare leather for tanning. At either ends of the blade were wooden handles; such knives are suggested by the scallop patterns in the horizontal black bar. The symbolism of the hide scraping is multi-layered, for it can also suggest that education is “a sort of scraping and tanning...
Some Latin American countries are trying to use the new mood in Washington to get trade openings they have sought for years. They want tariff reductions on products ranging from T shirts to footwear, leather goods to sugar. Colombia is struggling to move through Congress an expanded Andean Trade Preferences Act that would establish a graduated duty system, starting with no tariff, for textiles and apparel. "An important number of U.S. buyers shy away from Colombia because of the internal conflict," says Ronald Bakalarz, president of Stanton & Co., a Bogota-based footwear company. "But the more employment we create...