Word: tar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...needs further education. It is popularly supposed that all green papers are dangerous, and that all others are safe. In consequence, arsenical green papers have become unsaleable, and great care is taken to have them safe. A brilliant red dye has, however, been discovered, which is made from coal tar by the use of arsenic, and this enters into the composition of Pompeian red and various browns, where its use would be least suspected. Arsenic is also used to brighten other colors, and as an antiseptic in the size. Since the arsenic gets into the paper in such various ways...
Yale held a grand celebration over its victory over Princeton day before yesterday. The students marched around the campus, nine hundred strong and erected a huge bon-fire of tar barrels...
...been suggested that whereas the most objectionable feature of bonfires is the stealing of wheelbarrows and ladders to feed the flames, the corporation should erect a magazine and stock it with tar barrels and kindling wood for this purpose...
...north entry of Thayer is without exception inhabited by the freshest, most disorderly freshmen in college. The upperclassmen talk of tar and feathers unless the noise in the entry is stopped...
...simple mechanical device is made to rotate upon it. When the grinding is completed by the use of this tool and grinding-powder, and the lens reduced to the proper convex form, the polishing tool is applied. This is made of a wooden disk covered with coal tar, the tar being cut up into blocks on the side which touches the lens. The surface of the tar is coated, in turn, with bees-wax, which, by mild heat and pressure upon the surface of the glass, also acquires the exact curve of the lens. With this bees-wax, rubber...