Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Synthetic shoe leather, produced on carpet looms by Bigelow-Sanford, is made of close-woven cotton impregnated with plastic. Soles of the cottonleather give more mileage than the best leather, can be cemented or sewed to uppers...
...issued through the mails. Present rationing of many ordinary foods makes it important that these books be taken out for the six week period. In addition to the food coupons which will be consumed in "home cooking," many No. 17 stamps will be used, for their one-pair shoe value expires at the end of June...
Generations of N.Y.U. undergraduates have known and loved gentle, cigar-smoking Emil Von Elling. He started coaching track at N.Y.U. 30 years ago, when few New York City college boys had ever seen a spiked shoe. Now some 150 boys turn out each year for his team. He finds them fascinating as individuals, likes to tailor a different set of exercises and training schedule for each...
Maybe it sounds a little uneventful, but try and tell that to any self-respecting manager and see what happens. Nurtured by a competition, especially in the more popular sports, which is every bit as terrifying as Crimson Competitions used to be, these habitues of the tennis shoe and the looker room are often idolators of the sport they represent. It may be crew, it may be parcheal, they're all alike...
...mankind, that each generation may rise to heights loftier than any won by its predecessor." Already science offered wool from silk and silk from coal, plywoods, plastics, rustless steels, fire-resistant wood, synthetic finishes, bendable glass, luminous paint, two-way private radio, furniture derived from air, water and coal, shoe soles of impregnated carpeting, fluorescent lighting, packaged houses, television, autogiros, decentralized cities, lightweight automobiles and locomotives, air express, new chemicals, new medical discoveries so revolutionary that they offered a saving of human life greater than the sum of human life lost...