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Word: mortar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have been putting the steam-heating apparatus in place. The walls have not been plastered at all yet, but it is expected that not much time will be required to do that work, since a part of the inside walls will be finished in Philadelphia pressed brick with red mortar, and therefore will require no further finishing. Work on the flooring has not yet been begun, but the supporting iron cross beams are all in place and the actual work of laying the floors will be begun as soon as is practicable. Throughout the whole building every care has been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hastings Hall. | 2/11/1889 | See Source »

...sophomores of Lehigh have changed their class colors to orange and black, so that they may have a distinctive color for the tassel of their mortar-boards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 10/22/1888 | See Source »

...blue, which is made by the Perth Amboy Company in New Jersey. This material has been but little used as yet in this vicinity, and the house of Dr. Bradbury, at the corner of Marlboro and Exeter streets, is almost the only example. The bricks are laid in red mortar, and mottled terra cotta will be extensively used in the decoration of the interior. The basement is of rock-faced brown stone, and dark purple Maine slate will be used to cover the roof, while the copings are to be of copper, and not of stone as is customary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The New Dormitory. | 9/28/1888 | See Source »

...been voted by the Columbia Freshmen to wear "mortar-board" hats and class pins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/9/1887 | See Source »

...representatives wore long red togas and black mortar-boards - the "toga virilis" of 1825. The men marched in order and decorum, and presented a fine appearance. The marshals led the procession on horseback, then followed the large body of the senior class, and then, on a dray, a special feature, very well gotten up, representing "Johnnie Harvard's Pa's." The basis for this display lay in the fact that the revered founder of our university boasted of three fathers - one bona fide father and two step-fathers; a butcher, a grocer and a cooper. In the centre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GREAT PARADE | 11/9/1886 | See Source »

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