Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...