Word: plastering
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...parlor or meeting rooms oak panelled finish and deep window seats are called for, while the society rooms are to be finished in light paint to recall the old colonial buildings. This same treatment will be carried out in the Assembly Hall. Throughout the building the plaster walls are to be painted in plain harmonious color as a background for portraits and prints...
...Princeton a practice of strengthening the ankles and knees of each member of the eleven by adhesive plaster or elastic bands, even in ordinary daily practice, is very successful and might well be tried here. It takes time and cannot of course wholly prevent sprains or wrenched knees, but it makes the chances of serious injury very small...
...plaster cast of the "Pieta," by Michael Angelo, the original of which is in St. Peter's at Rome, has also been received recently...
...lamp. At the top of the lamp and directly connected to the metallic side, is the anode pole, and at the top of the cone is a glass tube with a cock-stop, so that the air may be exhausted. This glass tube is also fastened in with plaster-of-Paris and bound by a metallic ring. A circular wooden disc is fastened in the inside of the metallic cone, to prevent any collapse of the sides on exhaustion. By this construction it has been found that the difficulty from the absorptive power of the rays by the glass...
...plaster model for the statue of President Woolsey has been completed and goes to the foundry this week. Professor Weir is designer. The statue will be set up on the campus, probably in May. Graduates have given the statue, especially those who were here in President Woolsey's time, and the '96 Prom. committee assisted in raising funds...