Word: waxing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...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...
...present from Mr. Vaughan, is considered of great value, not only for its exactness, but for its rarity, the original proprietor of the work in England having destroyed the plates after 400 impressions were made, so that it is seldom met with in this country. The preparations in wax, in glass cases, of the heart, brain, eyes, are perfect exhibitions of those objects. In the midst of the tumultuous city, here all is stillness and solitude, where medical science, taking her pupils by the hand, leads them into her secret chambers, unfolding the intricacies of every department. An Apollo Belvedere...
Some enterprising genius has proposed to found a wax-works show, similar to the famous Tussand's in New York. Among the sights will be a representation of "Benjamin F. Butler preparing a course of study to be pursued at Harvard University...