Word: tarring
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...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...
...boss election bonfire was made at Princeton. The pile was forty feet high, with several barrels of tar poured...
...Sprinfield Republican thinks that "the Harvard boys ought to be kept at prayers till they know better than to tar the bronze statue of John Harvard...
Some ingenious persons covered the John Harvard statue last night with a coat of tar. The same persons presumable, marked a large '87 on the wall at the entrance of the chapel...