Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Squeezed into a small hall in the huge Park Square Building off Arlington Street, the brand new Telepix theatre presents a shower of short features to the public in ultra-modern and ultra-comfortable surroundings. Thus far, however, the "rocking chair comfort" and the sterilized air with ultra-violet ray generators are greater attractions than the uneven assortment of newsreels, travelogues and cartoons...
...passed the fourth, due March 15, control of the most valuable Hearst newspaper properties could go out of the hands of Hearstmen and into the hands of some 50,000 small stockholders, who put up $50,000,000 for what Mr. Hearst assured them nine years ago was "an ultra-conservative investment." With dividends $2,625,000 in arrears and $875,000 due this time, and with a committee representing 30,000 shares waiting to pounce on the company, the directors needed somebody to tell them what to do. Mr. Hearst is President of Hearst Consolidated. But Mr. Hearst...
...first time in the history of the Crimson intra-mural puck-handling, the Jayvees will be combined with the House teams. During Mid-years the managers of the various Houses are planning to recruit and organize all those interested. Located conveniently in Brighton, the Skating Club's ultra-modern building contains the largest indoor skating surface in New England and is furnished with elaborate locker and shower rooms...
...time since 1934 the might of the U. S. Navy is leaving the Pacific. Maneuvers in the Atlantic and Caribbean, and a ceremonial visit to the New York World's Fair of 1939, were planned over a year ago, before Franklin Roosevelt and the U. S. people became ultra-conscious of Europe and South America. Now the fleet's move has another significance: to bolster the President's "continental solidarity," and remind Europe's fascists that the U. S. is still a major power in the Atlantic...
...research problems that any whimsical relaxation is out of the question. Mr. Clark, however, has successfully bridged the gap between physics and fantasy. In providing a pleasant story for children, he has also shown embattled physicists a method of useful relaxation; and to a literary world largely dominated by ultra-realistic writers, he has shown anew the almost-forgotten beauty and attractiveness of a story for the young...