Sentences with word «overshoes»

She had to wear long winter underwear and heavy overshoes in bad weather; she remembers vividly how in grade school her teachers would let her start getting ready to go home five minutes earlier than the rest of the class because of all the layers she had to put on.

He spends his days spreading the good word of information literacy, helping history students locate elusive primary resources, and explaining to people why the University's sports teams are called «The Zips» (it was the name of a popular overshoe made by Akron's B. F. Goodrich Co. in the 1920s).

And the next year as well, I was almost in tears as I walked home, listening to the dry snow squeak beneath the black rubber overshoes my mother made us wear, and with nothing but a Christmas card to give her after the store where I'd planned to get her genuine rhinestone earrings closed earlier than I had expected on Christmas Eve.

Overshoes in hand he made a second and much calmer exit.

In America, the plastics industry would go crazy over a standard like this; In each square foot of R - 20 insulation, cellulose insulation embodies 600 BTU, Mineral wool 2,980 BTU, and Expanded polystyrene is 18,000 BTU (according to Martin Holladay at the GBA) The concrete industry, responsible for 5 % of the CO2 emitted in the world, would be making cement overshoes.

MEGAComfort makes workplace footwear accessories such as socks, insoles and overshoes, designed for safety and comfort.

There they stood all wrapped up in their parkas, ski jackets, and bulky sweaters wearing anything from construction boots to overshoes; there was even a sprinkling of executives in their Italian leather shoes, business suits and cashmere coats, all waiting to get in on a sure thing.

Don't get caught in the rain snow or salt without these overshoes from Tingley Weather Fashions.