Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every History 1 student knows after the final lecture, history is like a pendulum swinging from one extreme to the other. At one time, the Scholastics tried unit. In modern times we have swung too far in the other direction, for learning is now concentrated in small, widely-separated, ultra-specialized fields. Subjects which have natural connections, e.g., government and history, have been unnaturally separated into water-tight compartments. And because all communication has been cut off between him and his neighbors, each specialist has become less efficient and less productive. Obviously, it is necessary to start in the other...
...CROOKED HINGE - John Dickson Carr - Harper ($2). Extremely neat puzzle involving mixed identity, murder and witchcraft in an English village. Dr. Fell provides a surprising, ultra-tricky solution...
Mainspring of the device is a newly-developed radio tube capable of generating for practical use an ultra-high frequency wave of 500 megacycles that is not affected by static conditions, has a cork-centre bounce, has a frequency that can be measured at distances as low as 50 feet off the ground. Sensitive at present to 5,000 feet, improvements in the tube and transmitter can extend the altimeter's effectiveness to 15,000 feet. As feeler for possible obstructions dead ahead, the present 5,000-foot range would be inadequate because it would give a pilot flying...
...most likely fertilizer for a bumper crop of votes. Both camps are guilty of rosy promises, but most striking is their use by New Deal enemies, who on the one hand assert their conservatism and curse the Administration for extravagance, on the other back the most ultra-radical ideas and advocate the payment of billions in pension grants. Under this category, unfortunately must come the recent support, by Massachusetts Republicans, of the Townsend Plan...
...Ultra-tough, one-eyed General Jan Syrovy is the famed veteran hero of the Czechoslovak legions who stormed clear across Russia during the Russian Revolution, sailed from Vladivostok to rejoin their comrades in the homeland. It was smart for President Benes to give out last week that "yielding to fresh foreign pressure" he was unable to appoint as Premier General Syrovy, the people's choice, but had to choose instead a civilian, the Governor of Moravia, Jan Cerny- especially since it turned out a few hours later that redoubtable General Syrovy had actually been appointed Premier and had instantly...