Search Details

Word: ultra (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...honestly to express in unadorned English now ideas, and trying always to appraise them judiciously, is underrated for lack of appreciation of what the youth conceives to be the basic purpose of writing. The question in its last analysis, is one's choice between the shown shoddy road of ultra extreme but passing fashion and the genuine all-wool garment of conservative...

Author: By Philip S. Brown and Soldiers Field, S | Title: Philip Brown Says Freshman English Teachers Develop "Smart Writing" | 1/8/1936 | See Source »

...geographical exploration concerns itself with investigating the earth from its crust beneath to the top of the atmosphere, Dr. Stetson said we must advance into these upper regions to discover new facts about the effect of the attraction of the sun and the moor for the earth, and about ultra-violet radiation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STETSON SPEAKS ABOUT ATMOSPHERIC CEILING | 12/5/1935 | See Source »

...gendels of the balloon in this flight was above ninety-seven per cent of the earth atmosphere, and thus a spectrum of the sun could be obtained which would be free from practically all interference. It is hoped that the ultra-violet ray end of the spectrum may have been observed with greater accuracy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stevens' Stratosphere Discoveries May Determine Structure of Cosmic Rays | 11/13/1935 | See Source »

Perfection of the instrument which transmits its signals on the ultra-short wavelength of 5 meters, was made possible by a study of high frequency radio transmission and receiving between the weather station on top of Mount Washington and Blue Hill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Automatic Instrument at Milton Observatory Broadcasts Weather Conditions From Balloon | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

...demonstrate the sensitivity of these ultra-short waves, Professor McCaleb showed an apparatus which he had in his laboratory. There was a small transmitter to set up power-producing waves, and a receiver to record them. Even when a hand was passed between the sender and receiver, fluctuations were very marked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rumor of Marconi's Micro-Wave Machine, Capable of Frustrating Ethiopian Aviators, Makes Scientists Smile | 10/19/1935 | See Source »

Previous | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | Next