Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...explosion so heavy as to be felt all over the yard. The windows of the room were, violently blown out over the sidewalk, the door was partly blown open, the ceiling was sprung, and the wall on the entry displaced about six inches, and about 20 feet of plastering so damaged as to have to be torn down immediately. All the plastering in the room was shaken loose, and the wood work, paper and ornaments were badly scorched. Everything was in great disorder in the room when the CRIMSON reporter entered it; masons were engaged in tearing down plaster...
...nasty look down through its comely Mansard roof, and through its thick walls of brick and mortar. Thou knowest its hideous incompleteness within. There is no floor upon which to walk through its lovely corridors or its magnificent halls, no winding stairs by which to ascend its heights, no plaster to hide its grinning walls, no seats, no bell, no furnace, no musical instrument, no library...
...kept in the region of the far west where the fossils are found, and are sending in new matter all the time. Prof. Marsh is pushing the work with great enterprise and at great personal expense. He is giving foreign universities the benefit of the collection by sending many plaster casts to them...
...room up-stairs is entirely devoted to the purposes of a dormitory. Underneath it is the room, which serves as reading room, dining room and reception room. Separated from this by a passage not enclosed, is the kitchen. Everything is rough and nothing can be discovered of lath or plaster, but everything is comfortable and suitable, from the rough chimney in which we burn logs on cold evenings, to the rough pine table at which we dine, scrawled all over by the hands of visitors and interesting notes and comments...
...druggist, dependent largely for his support on the patronage of Yale students. advertises as follows: "Arnica, sticking-plaster, splints, bandages and other base-ball goods...