Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after that, what? Certainly such a debacle will be achieved only over the dead bodies of the western Democrats and what there is left of the Progressive Republicans. And if that happens, President Roosevelt will be forced into the ridiculous position of looking for support in an ultra-conservative Republican east revolting against progressive Democrats and Republicans alike in the west...
...plump-cheeked Dr. Zworykin announced that his iconoscope was ready for use as the "eye" of a powerful ultramicroscope. Its field of operation extends on both sides of the visible light spectrum -up to 10,000 angstrom units on the infra-red range, down to 1,000 on the ultra-violet.* This point on the ultraviolet side is 2,000 units lower than in other ultramicroscopes. If organisms never seen by human eye do exist in the filtrable viruses of common colds and infantile paralysis, they might be detected by light of such short wavelength. Light of longer wavelength they...
Some of the ultra-conservative raise their eye-brows in silent horror at the open frankness of the chastisement...
...Theatre. It is inconceivable that such a piece of work could have been done by a Frenchman or an Italian; only a German could produce a film which does not have one single light touch to relieve its grimness from beginning to end. Despite this pre-occupation with the ultra-Micawber "A" is a picture arresting and unusual 'a its theme, splendidly photographed, and with acting that is always distinguished and even approaches genius...
...tailors like Twyeffort and Bell of Manhattan, Dunne of Boston, Stewart of Philadelphia do only a fraction of that business. But the customers for whom they make $120 sack suits (1929 price: $150) are generally to be found sitting at the head of most directors' tables or behind ultra-modest little signs labeled "The President...