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...University of Kansas City goes Spaniard Luis Quintanilla, able draughtsman and muralist, to start the first university school of fresco painting in the U. S. Artist Quintanilla will have 40 to 50 pupils, who will help him paint, on wet plaster in the Liberal Arts Building Auditorium, a real fresco, possibly of Don Quixote in a modern setting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Artists in Residence | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

...Germans, two Filipinos, two Czochs, two Chinese, an Austrian, and a Spaniard-this is not a roll-call of a Singapore bar, but he roster of foreign students who live at the International Club, Harvard's unique experiment in cooperative living...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No War at International Club In spite of Its Six Nationalities | 3/9/1940 | See Source »

...contradicts both them and himself. Ingenious Author de Madariaga culls through the lot. His best technical evidence: 1) Columbus' Spanish resembled the language of the 14th rather than the 15th Century (suggesting that he learned it from his parents) ; 2) his mistakes in Latin were those of a Spaniard, not an Italian or Portuguese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jewish Discoverer? | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

Also in the show cases is an example of the first book published in the Western Hemisphere, which was printed by Juan Pablos, a Spaniard who set up shop in Mexico in 1539 and published his first work a year later...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rare Collection Of Fine Printing Shown in Widener | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

...proud of being a Spaniard now that the Spanish people are fighting to save their own culture." Luis Mira, former professor at the University of Barcelona and inspector of psychiatry in the Spanish Republican Army, said at a meeting sponsored by the Teachers' Union in behalf of the Spanish Refugee Campaign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIRA SHOWS WEAKNESS OF FRANCO'S REGIME | 11/21/1939 | See Source »

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