Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Suspect Ultra-Violet Radiation...
...thinking about a very nasty subject: bacterial warfare. They decided that the U.S. Government ought to know what they were thinking, so they wrote it all down in a 40,000-word paper. That was early in 1942; the authors were subsequently hired by the Government's ultra-secret biological warfare section. Even though it was written without access to Washington's secret information, the paper looked like much too thorough an estimate of the possibilities of bacterial warfare for general circulation in wartime...
...been relatively quiet on the Mem Hall scene since then. Most recent renovation has been the transformation of its basement into ultra-modern psychology and psycho-acoustic laboratories. Walking through the medieval transept and then down into the futuristic halls of science beneath is as startling as being transported from the Dark Ages into the World of Tomorrow. At last the Renaissance seems to have overtaken Memorial Hall...
Mock marathon entries and seductive models may have held the spotlights in Jubilee's ultra-extrovert publicity up to now, but a theatrical item in the weekend's activities will play a larger part in the future...
...read the Bulletin" but there is not much truth to it. The Bulletin may be unspectacular, but it is a good newspaper. Lately, it has strangely refused to act its age. It recently underwent a drastic face-lifting, peeled off the old-fashioned headline types in favor of clean, ultra-modern fonts. Traditionally Republican, it has nevertheless been staunchly pro-Lilienthal, and has given Harry Truman some kindly back-pats. Since it bought the liberal Record, (TIME, Feb. 10), it has had an embarrassing wealth of columns, now prints Tom Stokes as often as David Lawrence, makes room...