Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus did the Krcus-Zeitung, ultra-Monarchist journal of Berlin, celebrate ex-Kaiser Wilhelm's 66th birthday...
...portrait be lifesize, it must be done in a style conformable to the decoration of the woman's drawing room. If the drawing room is Louis XV period, so must be the picture. Since many drawing rooms are modern, with Oriental motifs, many pictures are done in ultra-modernist style, all attention given to pose and expression, costumes indicated by a few strokes with oriental backgrounds. Fernand Goin, Jean Gabriel Domergue, Van Dongen are reported to be doing many portraits of this kind. "They have their sittings booked for months ahead, like fashionable dentists...
...present has grown much too blase to do anything but yawn when confronted with the wonders of science. Even hideous gases and death-dealing ultra-what rays have lost their power to amuse us. We smile at chemistry, and, save when we experiment with the fuse-box in the dark, ignore the extraordinary possibilities of electricity. Complex machinery is to us as an open primer, and we positively gape when someone mentions advanced physics...
...altogether revolutionary in its principles, for according to Arne J. Parker, of Fitchburg, it "believes in a gradual evolution by a process of education rather than in radical methods to attain the ultimate goal of socialism. We are in no sense in sympathy with communistic or other ultra-radical ideas...
...discovery that quicksilver could be transformed into gold, an apparent solution of an age-old problem and a realization of the dream of ancient alchemists, was an accident, as were many other scientific discoveries. Using a quartz lamp and quicksilver vapor, he was endeavoring to determine the effect of ultra violet rays upon certain materials. An electric current of 170 volts and of a comparatively low amperage was passed through the lamp...