Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...natural instincts a scientist, however, President Little did not give up his research. With Professor W. T. Bovie of the Harvard Medical School, he experimented with the application of ultra-violet rays to plant and animal diseases. With the aid of fused quartz produced by Edward R. Berry of the Lynn General Electric Company, results were produced and ultra-violet rays were pronounced valuable in the curing of rickets in children. President Little recently called the X-ray harmful to the human body, after he had experimented extensively with its effects on mice...
...believed that Judge Razek has strong following among the people, and may eventually defeat the ultra-orthodox Islamic Fundamentalists...
...That cancer is caused by a virus ultra-minute germ) or group of viruses, and that it is this same virus that produces all kinds of cancers...
...four years president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, seemed to have many ideal qualifications for the leadership of her particular group, but outside of that group women were not inclined to follow her. Alice Paul satisfies entirely the demands of her particular group of ultra-progressives, but her following is comparatively small...
Noble Newport Potts, President of the National Patriotic Council. She sent Mrs. Moore a 1,000-word letter desiring categorical replies to such questions as "Will your conference . . . fail to open any session with prayer ?" "Will your conference . . . permit to be distributed . . . ultra-pacifistic literature including the horrible 'slacker's oath' wherein spineless young men promise never to fight for their country . . . and soulless women agree never to sew a bandage. . . ?" Were any persons listed in one R. M. Whitney's book Reds in America to speak...