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Through the streets of Turin last week The Sacred Winding Sheet (also called The Holy Shroud) was borne triumphantly in a silver chest to The Chapel of the Winding Sheet in Turin cathedral. Escorting it walked Crown Prince Umberto, Crown Princess Marie Jose, Princess Mafalda, Yolanda and Bona, the Dukes of Apulia, Genoa, Spoleto, Pistoia Ancona, Bergamo and the Count of Turin...
Caution was necessary for two reasons. 1) The Lambeth Conference, a decennial meeting, is purely advisory; its resolutions are by no means mandatory; they reflect the opinions of the majority of the bishops. The secrecy of the sessions is to shroud the often bitter arguments among the bishops. 2) The Church of England is not a unanimous body. Its Anglo-Catholic group has developed a serious rift in its doctrinal observations...
Yesterday the grave was dug, and Van Valkenberg went to the garage to get Trixie. From her blanket shroud the dog scrambled up and ran to her master. ". . . Here let us recall that in his memoirs, Fifty Years a Journalist, Melville E. Stone declared that 'the Associated Press is writing the real and enduring history of the world, and is not chronicling the trivial episodes, the scandal, and the chit-chat...
...parachute is a hollow hemisphere of strong, light silk or cotton, diameter varying from 22 ft. to 28 ft., with shroud lines running from the rim of the fabric to a harness worn around the body of the jumper. The parachute idea is credited to Leonardo da Vinci, mathematician and scientist as well as painter and sculptor, in 1495 (in his tome Codex Atlanticus...
...about 16 ft. per second. This amounts to a force equal to that of jumping from a ten-foot fence, often sufficient to sprain an ankle. Chutes can be partially guided when the jumper wishes to avoid landing in a clump of trees or a pond, by pulling the shroud lines on the side toward which he wants to go. In a high wind, if the jumper does not unharness himself before he lands, as he must do when landing on water, he will be dragged over the ground, bashed and banged...