Word: near
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last summer the Directors of the Museum discovered in France a set of embroideries hitherto unknown and unpublished, probably done near Valencia in Spain around 1400, a period from which very few embroideries are in existence today. The large cross-shaped orphrey from the back of the chasuble represents the cruicified Christ; at the foot are the emblems of the Passion and a beautifully unified group composed of the Vigin, Saint John and Mary Magdalene. The wood of the cross is carried out in stitches following the grain, and the background is worked in threads of pure gold couched...
...inventor plans to develop his brain-child, by the use of a photo electric cell, and hopes to make it differentiate colors, in the near future...
Elphege Daignault is an attorney-at-law with offices in the Longley Building, Woonsocket. Like most of the 290,540 Catholics who live in and near Providence he is a French-Canadian. And, like most of Providence's French-Canadians, he gave money in 1925 for a school fund which was to be distributed by the Rt. Rev. William A. Hickey, Bishop of the Diocese of Providence. Attorney Daignault and many another donor wanted strictly French-speaking schools. In the schools that Bishop Hickey built, English was spoken, though French was taught. Attorney Daignault...
...example of his advice is: treat intuitions tenderly. "The moment we feel their presence, it is as if we saw the ripple over Bethesda and we ought to know that our chance is near. Silence, both exterior and interior, should prevail; we ought to be attentive but not eager or, above all, curious. The beautiful visitor is like a butterfly, no longer the same when caught...
...Russia's Near-Eastern Policy", Professor Karpovitch, Sever...