Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McDonald Jr., president of Zenith Radio, has been happily harpooning his competitors. Full-page ads in 30 newspapers have trumpeted the warning that all TV sets (except Zenith's) are in danger of becoming obsolete. Zenith's reasoning: any day now, the Federal Communications Commission may license Ultra High Frequencies* for TV transmission. McDonald claimed that Zenith is the only television receiver equipped with "a specially designed, built-in turret tuner" with "provision" for picking...
...electronics, the radio spectrum has three main communications divisions: Medium Frequency, used for standard radio; Very High Frequency, used for television; Ultra High Frequency, now used for radar and airplane communication...
...Moscow saw her come home from these trips and break down weeping. But for all her disappointments in Communism, she clung to it. Of the collectives which had horrified her, she actually wrote: "One hundred million of the world's most backward peasants almost overnight [swung] into ultra-modern farming . . . Their increased income [was] translatable into silk dresses, perfumes, musical instruments...
There was early discord among the pals. Menachim Beigin's ultra-nationalist Freedom Movement refused to be called a right-wing party, ignored its allotment of seats on the chamber's extreme right, and stubbornly sat down on the left. The Communists objected to the seating of their own backslid deputy, Eliezer Preminger, who, they claimed, had been purged for 1) robbing a bank, and 2) planning secession from the party. The Assembly ignored the Communist protests and seated Pal Preminger...
...things on earth,'women are the most beautiful, and this is an honest picture of an attractive woman." One young woman seemed to have got the Kunastrokian point the show was intended to make. She liked the paintings of the 19305 (which included works of ultra-Modernists Abraham Rattner and Karl Knaths)-just "because is because is because...