Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...august London Times and ultra-conservative Daily Telegraph wrote no editorials on the Viceroy's address. But other British newspapers did comment, and their attitude had more significance for the future than Linlithgow's righteous words...
...that Sikorski, a realistic soldier could be swayed to accept the Bug River line, which is ethnologically sound, militarily feasible, and politically sane, together with the friendship of Russia which he has helped create by numerous mutually useful pacts and agreements. The danger is that the power of the ultra-conservative Polish nobility will make Sikorski an inarticulate puppet when the time comes to face Stalin, who feels about Russia's western approaches much the same as Secretary Knox feels about our Pacific approaches, as the keystones of security...
...York Times book reviewer, sobersided John Chamberlain, used a full column one morning to review the catalogues-in rollicking verse. In Boston's ultra-respectable College Club, women flocked to a series of morning lectures on vegetable gardening. In Minneapolis, with temperatures ranging to 31 below zero, the Star-Journal's gardening editor was booked solid for lectures. In Dallas, the Robin Road Cooperative Association (ten determined couples who gave each other garden tools for Christmas) got off to an early start digging in its borrowed acre-the women wearing the most beautiful slacks ever seen...
Unassigned members of the ERC, Juniors and Seniors who have had or who are taking courses in Electronics, Physics, or Electrical Engineering can now study the latest "ultra modern" in communications methods under the Signal Corps, Major Walter A. Brown announced yesterday...
...fascinated by such English institutions as pubs, the Derby and the Eton & Harrow cricket match that he stayed on, published a book of satirical drawings appreciatively lampooning Britain's pomps and humors. With the enthusiastic support of famed British Painter Augustus Edwin John, London's ultra-conservative Victoria & Albert Museum purchased three Topolski drawings. Only one member of the Museum's committee objected-on the ground that they were the work of a too young foreigner. The committeeman said: "We must draw the line somewhere." Cracked Augustus John: "But can you draw the line like Topolski...