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Hands. The Hahn picture is the same width as the Louvre painting, but 7½ inches shorter. In 1752, the first descriptive catalog of the royal picture gallery described a woman in red, by Leonardo, "holding a piece of lace in her hands." Measurements of this picture are the same as those of the present Louvre portrait which has no hands. The supposition is that when the Hahn portrait was transferred from wood to canvas in 1777,* the 7½ inches at the bottom containing the hands...
...finer tribute has ever been offered than Memorial Hall, by width Harvard University perpetuates the memory of these of its sons who gave their lives for their country during the Civil War. No more beautiful tribute could be conceived than the memorial which appears in the University church, to these who later have their lives for their country...
...laws. The shochet is a man of Hebrew learning, well-versed in Talmud and the laws. His is an honorable profession. He takes a rigid examination before competent authority in all the laws of shechitah and trefah. The length of the shochet's knife must be twice the width of the throat to be cut, must be razor-sharp and unnicked. Before slaughtering, the shochet carefully says: "Blessed are Thou . . . who sanctified us with His commandments and commanded us concerning slaughtering." If many animals are being killed at the same time, one blessing is enough. After the blessing, there...
...ahead. With 100 metres to go, it was 3 ft. in front of California. Coxswain Norrie Graham of California backed his stroke up to 44. The 3 ft. grew slowly narrower. Twenty-five yards from the finish, it was 1 ft. At the finish, California was ahead, by the width of a hand. Canada's Leander crew was 8 ft. behind Italy, England was fourth by 6 ft. more. A crowd of 95,000 saw the Olympic Torch extinguished, the 1936 Olympic Games promised to Berlin in the ceremonies that closed the most successful modern Olympiad on record. Final...
...weather was thick, the seals kept away from the rocks where on bright days they bask. Patiently the banker, the broker, the aviator waited for another dawn. That day it snowed, they shivered aboard their boat all day. On the fourth day the skies cleared. Across the width of Goose Island the three men wriggled on their stomachs, waited uncomfortable hours within sight of some big, flat rocks. Finally, out of the water clambered a single big bull seal, settled himself oleaginously upon a rock. Flyer Petre drew bead, fired straight & true. The seal shivered, shook, flipped, flopped, floundered...