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Word: ultra (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Again, the selection of the corporation will reflect its view on the world situation as it pertains to the University. The early group which by-passed Mather's ultra-conservatism and ignored his boast to eliminate the devil seems to have been justified by Harvard's successful growth...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Candidates Sneer, Electioneer Through History | 3/6/1953 | See Source »

...Sports-car fanatics regard these cars as still too big. But even the fanatics were impressed when Chevrolet showed off its new fiber-glass plastic Corvette a fortnight ago. The Corvette, still to be put into production, seemed to have everything the best European sports cars have -except the ultra-high price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Low-Slung Beauty | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...ultra-conservative committee formed to stop the efforts of radical groups to "foist a foreign concept into the school system," appeared this week to be further complicating the much-publicized Pasadena. California progressive education dispute...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Group Organizes To Curb 'Liberalism' In Pasadena Teaching | 1/24/1953 | See Source »

Perhaps ... an outside comment may be in order . . . To us the salient point to grasp seems to be that no country, like the U.S., is entitled to expect others to provide a market for American exports unless equal, competitive entry of foreign processed goods is permitted. Your ultra-high tariff has, up to now, blocked this mutual equation . . . Up to the beginning of World War II, this gap was plugged principally by the shipments of gold to Fort Knox, in place of goods. Since the end of the war, the dollar shortage abroad was offset by temporary devices, such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 8, 1952 | 12/8/1952 | See Source »

...Harvard Gentlemen who defeated Davidson (35-26) Saturday were anything but that. . . . Despite all you hear about the ultra-ultra atmosphere of the Ivy League circuit, those Crimson characters were the meanest, roughest, most ruthless athletes you could locate outside a lumberjack's free-for-all. . . . The Southern Conference's most scandalous operators of the Flying Fist & the Uplifted Knee are creampuffs compared to Harvard. Charlotee News...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROWDIES | 11/14/1952 | See Source »

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