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...meant translating a Roman Catholic English Bible-Old and New Testaments-from the Latin Vulgate. For Eldest Brother Edmund it meant a painstaking ascension to the Fleet Street pantheon as editor of Punch. Wilfred, the third-born son, chose a different sort of test. An Edwardian dandy who wore silk ties from London's Burlington Arcade, he took a vow of poverty as a workingman's Anglican priest...
...pieces together), a lathekin (a wooden tool) to flatten the foil on the glass, a soldering iron, a lubricant (usually kerosene) to make the cutter run smoothly on the glass, a flux (a solution to make the solder adhere to the foil or lead). New techniques, such as sandblasting, silk-screen painting, laminating and the use of epoxy resins, enable artists to achieve subtle tactile and visual effects. Even so, stained glass demands infinite patience; a single lamp shade may be composed of 2,400 meticulously assembled pieces...
Sophomore year you did not look quite the same. Roth was gone and Bolduc and Ted Thorndike were Olympians. But the magic was still there along with Brian ("only the Lord saves more") Petrovek and a smooth-as-silk rookie named George Hughes...
...Lamby (O'Callahan, Silk...
TOTAL PENALTY MINUTES: B.U. 26, Harvard 27 (Fighting majors were assessed to Murray Dea, George Hughes, and Jack Hughes of Harvard, McLeod and Silk...