Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Senator Baldwin, a Willkieman in 1940, sounded his rebel cry in public. In an article in the American Magazine, he hit hard at "rock-ribbed ultra-conservatism" and at the record of the G.O.P. leadership in Congress. Wrote Baldwin...
...Keynote. Yet an air of solid habit had begun to pervade U.N.'s halls. Faces grew familiar. Delegates had learned their way to conference rooms, bars and washrooms. Recently, when an ultra-orthodox Moslem member of the Egyptian delegation spread his prayer rug just off the press bar, nobody paid any attention (except a helpful British journalist who told the Moslem which way was east...
...politics. Utah's two Congressmen and both its Senators are Mormons, and so is Governor Herbert B. Maw. Mormon politicians do not invariably follow the hierarchy. Neither the Governor nor Democratic Senator Elbert Thomas are "church candidates" in the sense that they represent the church's ultra-conservative policies on such matters as labor and foreign policy. Mormon voters have a mind of their own, too. Despite the church's opposition they gave Roosevelt a majority four times...
...degrees centigrade," Menzel and Goldberg pointed out, "But the condition of atoms in the sun's outer atmosphere indicates that temperatures of over 1,000,000 degrees centigrade prevail at some distance from the sun. This and other indirect evidence suggest that there is an unexpectedly large quantity of ultra-violet radiation from the sun's surface...
...cameras and other instruments in V-2 rockets are making it possible to study this ultra-violet sunlight and may reveal information which will entirely change present ideas as to the physical and chemical composition of the solar body...