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...wisdom," over her shoulders was draped the golden Pallium, symbol of "the robe of righteousness and the garments of salvation." And to remind the monarch that "the whole world is subject to the Power and Empire of Christ our Redeemer," the Dean of Westminster presented her with the Orb, a golden globe surmounted by a cross...
...Mediterranean, will carry St. Edward's crown into the Abbey; Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein will bear the royal standard; Viscount Portal, World War II Air Chief of Staff, will bear the scepter with the cross; and Earl Alexander of Tunis, Defense Minister, will carry the orb, a golden globe with jeweled cross, symbolic of the sovereignty of Christ...
...figure of speech. Belgium uses none of the royal trappings, crown, orb or scepter...
...Wall Streeters are cocking an orb," wrote Walter Winchell last week, "at a stock . . . which sells for less than $1 the share ... It peddled over 100,000 shares last week. Big tip .. . Utility." The Street had no trouble identifying the stock as National Power & Light, which in the last ten days had suddenly become one of the most active on the big board. After Winchell's tip the stock soared. In one day, heavy buying sent it from 94?a share to $1.25, a rise...
Temperamental Artist. Not all spiders make prey-catching webs. Of the web-makers, the genus Aranea is the master weaver and engineer. Aranea spins the familiar but complicated "orb web" a large number of segmented rings on a framework of 25 to 35 spokes. Although the typical orb web may have 13,000 or more tie-lines, the spider makes a new web every day, and, like a temperamental artist, never deigns to do repair work. She* puts glue on the silk to make it sticky. To prevent quick drying (or for some other reason), the glue is concentrated...