Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demonstration and description of apparatus seen in foreign schools. At the conclusion of this, an opportunity will be furnished for the members of the association to inspect some of the interesting features of the new research Laboratory, such as the 100,000 volt storage battery, Professor Lyman's ultra-violet vacuum spectograph, Professor Duane's X-ray spectograph, and Professor Bridgman's high pressure apparatus...
...Congress: Ultra-conservative in his economic views, he is unflinchingly regular in his Republican votes. Seniority of service has advanced him to the chairmanship of the Naval Affairs Committee. Sincerely believing in the largest fighting fleet possible, he is the legislative spokesman of the Navy's General Board. When President Hoover called for an investigation of Big-Navy lobbying by William B. Shearer, he went all in a fidget to his old friend and Harvard classmate, the late Undersecretary of State, Joseph Potter Cotton, who advised him: "Freddie, you've been here 13 years and haven...
...very low temperature. The juice after this treatment was pure. A solution of carbonate of soda was added and the juice again treated with ether, which then was again steamed off. The result was a yellow oil containing some needle-shaped crystals. When these crystals had been treated with ultra violet rays they proved able to withstand storage, and when they were given to a porpoise suffering from scurvy in its acutest form, the porpoise was completely cured after a short time...
...colonel would not have been proud could he have observed how ignominiously death came, at least temporarily, to his magazine last week. But he surely would have emitted his favorite snort of satisfaction to see researchers in the New York Public Library poring over his famed Fads & Fancies?an ultra-elaborate "Who's Who" of society for which the subjects listed paid staggering "subscriptions." Twice during his life Col. Mann offered the book to the Library; twice, to his indescribable indignation, it was refused...
Loyal Harvard men will perhaps be moved by the accusation that the University in transferring other people's hot air in its pipes would be acting ultra vires. That would surely not be cricket; Lowell House would protest if others...