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After conferring the galerum rubrum (red hat) and cappa magna (Cardinal's cloak) on the six new Cardinals named last month (TIME, Dec. 2), His Holiness Pope Pius XI last week published an encyclical letter to the Catholic episcopacy. Excerpt: "The greatest malady of the modern age, the principal source of the evils we all deplore, is the lack of reflection. . . . There is only one remedy which I can propose. This is to invite tired souls to have recourse to spiritual exercises. . . . We must not neglect this supernatural breath which is life to many souls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prisoner Emerges | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...new Rome that is the U. S. has returned one of its adopted sons, the ubiquitous, restless Russian painter of Philadelphia, Capt. Vladimir ("Vovo") Perfilieff, erstwhile of the Tsar's Cossacks (TIME, Dec. 19, 1927). Some years he goes to the Balkans. Once he went to Haiti with Naturalist William Beebe. Two years ago he went "up" north down the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean. Last summer he went to see the monasteries of Mount Athos in Greece, which have changed scarcely by one syllable of a prayer since the 4th and 5th Centuries. Last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Solitary | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

From doctors' offices, from laboratories and universities during the year 1929 issued many a new discovery, many a new comfort for mankind. The epitome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Medical Year | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

...new type of quartz mercury vapor bulb for generating ultraviolet light developed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Medical Year | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

Cyclopropane anesthetic, a new gas similar to nitrous oxide, discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Medical Year | 12/30/1929 | See Source »

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