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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...
...white-haired and aristocratic, took umbrage at certain statements made by the "disreputable politician and brilliant novelist," one of which was that: "Spain is exactly as it has been for over three years, there is no outward change of any kind . . . it deteriorates." Penning beneath the sun at San Sebastian, popular Spanish watering place where he was spending a vacation from his diplomatic duties (he has been Ambassador in London since 1913), he wrote the following list of changes that had been effected since 1923, year of the Primo de Rivera revolution (TIME, Sept...
...condemned by the Church authorities, was received recently by the Widener Library and is now on exhibition in the Treasure Room. This volume which was presented to the Library by the late Robert Wheeler Willson, bears Galileo's autograph, being a special present to the author's friend, Sebastian Venieris...
...recital this afternoon, Professor Davison will play a program of compositions for the organ by Johann Sebastian Bach...
...last fires of the Inquisition. He liked them because, having banished the spirit, they were very near to life, but he liked better those saints who, having banished the flesh, had embraced life itself. Now, the saints he loved throng the Prado at Madrid and other museums. St. Sebastian, who wears in his great beard the majesty of childhood; St. Jerome, with his riven ribs; grave St. Judas Tadeo, staff in hand; bushy St. Simon with a book; St. Maurice, pure and warlike, standing under the banners among the soldiers of the Theban Legion and, again and again, St. Francis...