Word: waxing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through these strong-arm tactics, one student came very near to losing an eye through the firing of a tear gas bomb, as the little wax pellet flew out and hit him in the cyclid. This would never have happened, if the mob had been slowly but surely dealt with by proctors and Yard Cops who could have confiscated bursars cards, and broken the affair up in the same manner in which it had been started; namely in the spirit of good fun and lack of venomous malice. The Cambridge police bungled the thing, and they must stand responsible...
Benin bronzes were made with the very difficult "lost wax process", and are thought to be some of the world's most expert examples of this art. Among the most famous of these works shown are a pair of leopards from the royal palace, a life-sized rooster covered with feathers in a foliage design, and numerous plaques with figures of warriors, priests, nobles, and their attendants...
...affected too by what the flute is made of. Thirty years ago most flutes were wooden. Nowadays all but five U. S. flautists use instruments of silver or some cheaper metal. Flutes have also been made of bamboo, ivory, jade, porcelain, crystalline glass, rubber, papiermâché, wax and human bones...
...beauty parlor. I watched the manicurist drop the orange stick to pick up the emery board, and so on, grudging the seconds wasted, when suddenly it occurred to me that the different tools might be at tached to various fingers. At the dentist's I borrowed some wax to mold a thimble and began to experiment with my idea." An artist and architect who uses her hands a great deal, Mrs. Greneker experimented with different materials for her tool-carrying thimbles. After discarding wax, she tried leather and cellophane, finally chose silver, christened her gadgets "Fingertips." Last week, with...
...urging on the part of G. Wallace Woodworth '24, conductor of the Club, for more than three years. It is in eight parts, and was first sung at the Tercentenary. Recording marks an innovation in Glee Club policy. Several pieces from the current repertoire will also be preserved in wax on Saturday, March...