Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reply to the gentleman who wanted to know what was wrong with attending Mr. Cramer's tutoring school, and whether, in fact, Mr. Cramer should not be encouraged, in view of his ultra-rapid success in teaching University courses, and whether the various professors should not make exams such as to prevent this sort of study, I would like to put in a few words in condemnation of Mr. Cramer...
...movies richest in spirit and vitality came from Italy. By comparison, even the best British films were academic and genteel (Britain's best was, significantly, an adaptation of a literary classic). French films in general were ultra-civilized but low in vigor. Russia had all but ceased to exist as a source of movie interest, except to Russophiles; Germany was just beginning to stir...
...Psycho-Acoustical Laboratory is a product of war research in problems of mechanical noises and their effect on personnel. It was established in 1940, at which time the basement of Memorial Hall was altered to make an efficient and ultra-modern headquarters. Later, when the Social Relations Department and the Department of Psychology split up, it seemed only logical, in view of the close tieup between psychology and acoustics, to turn over a portion of the Laboratory to Psychology and the shift was made...
Delegates were mindful of the recent fracas in Unitarian ranks over the ousting of Pastor Stephen Fritchman for following the Communist line too closely in his editing of the monthly Christian Register (TIME, May 26). There had also been critical murmurs from "theist" Unitarians against the ultra-humanist views of President Frederick May Eliot's administration. But the agenda proved too crowded for these controversies. Indeed, there was too much to say and too little time in which to say it. Once as many as five delegates contended for the microphone...
...whole family lived in one room, one congressional investigator remarked: "I wonder how long I would live like this before I became a Communist." A colleague cracked: "It wouldn't take two years of it to make Cox a Republican." But no one laughed. Georgia's ultra-reactionary Eugene ("Goober") Cox was so moved that when he got back to the train he gave his sweater, necktie, other odds & ends of clothing and all the chocolate he could buy to a group of Essen's children who had gathered at the train shouting: "Uncle, uncle, chocolate, chocolate...