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...Heidelberg University there is a rule on record which was made in 1430, forbidding the practice by the older students of shaving the heads of new students and filling their ears with wax...
...exhibit the ridiculous humours of other people and finally to put them out, themselyes have humours which they continue parading until checked. So it was with Carlo Buffone whose tastes for teasing and good living were both extinguished when Sir Puntarvolo filled up his mouth with hot sealing wax. Mr. Moulton received enthusiastic applause after he had finished, which testified to his success in delighting his audience...
...youth." To get a vivid idea of God and of our duty toward Him, we must keep him in our hearts from our youth up. The days of childhood are days of impressions. As we grow older our perceptions become duller, and our lives are less easily molded. Wax must be stamped when it is warm. Whenever a man raises an ideal late in life, he always regrets the possibility of achievement which might have been his, had he awakened sooner. If we begin early to follow the example of Christ, the goodness which at first comes by reflection will...
Noera has put in his show window a life size wax figure, the type of the Harvard athlete...
...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, and very fine rouge, the polishing is done...