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...Lindbergh acquired the first string of honorary letters after his name; M. A. S., Master of Aeronautical Science. The honor was accorded by St. Joseph College, Philadelphia; a Jesuit institution. At the ceremonial dinner, the flyer wore a gold-lined gown, a silver tassel on his flat academic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Lindbergh Honored | 11/21/1927 | See Source »

Father Edmundo Almeida, Spanish Jesuit priest, has invented a new type electric storage battery. U. S. students who had heard him lecture on his battery at Cadiz, Seville and San Sebastian, Spain, during the spring, last week said that it was more efficient than the common acid battery or the Edison alkaline battery. The Argentine magazine Estudios gave details...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Priest's Battery | 11/7/1927 | See Source »

When term classes ended last week for students of Holy Cross, Jesuit college at Worcester, Mass., a gentle-faced German student hastened to the train that would start him toward Germany. He was Anton Lang II, second son of the able Christus of the Passion Players of Oberammergau (see p. 19). At Holy Cross, Anton II had proved himself able (high marks) and entertaining (violinist with the musical clubs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Anton II | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

...however, is not all. Herr Mann wishes to picture modern life as well as life in general. Lengthy talks and debates upon contemporary social and philosophic problems of the day immediately before the war are carried on by various patients, in particular the Italian humanitarian, Ludovico Settembrini, the clever Jesuit, Naptha, and the aristocratic Pieter Peeperkorn. These philosophisings may be realistic in that they are mediocre but certainly they are mediocre but certainly they are tiresome reading...

Author: By E. L. Hatfield, | Title: ---Artist and Artisan | 6/15/1927 | See Source »

With edicts couched in such terms as these the Shoguns of Japan banished, not quite three centuries ago, the Jesuit missionaries and Occidental traders who had flocked to Nippon a century earlier, when it was "discovered" by the Portuguese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Monument of Moment | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

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