Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's biggest antenna for the harbor of Le Havre, France. Last week, with long-sluggish TV sales picking up once more, President Adams flew out to Chicago to show off Belmont's newest "Vu-Matic" television models. The "Vu" stands for very high frequency and ultra-high frequency. Raytheon claims its new tuners will be able to cover the whole radio spectrum...
After the present ultra-conservative government came into power in 1949, however, the official attitude toward Protestants changed. Many Roman Catholic priests, worried by Protestant proselytizing, began to preach inflammatory sermons. Most of the Protestants also belonged to the overturned Liberal Party; some local government officials were happy to get at political foes under the pretext of religious fervor...
...thousand bravos to you for an absorbing review ... As I am a young man just turned 30 and one who has encountered even occasionally in my own circle of friends so-called "liberals," ultra-left-wingers, apologists and the like; let me say that the young men & women of America should well take note not only of the content of Chambers' expose, but rather initiate something concrete in ridding our government, and the present Administration's crumbling bureaucracy of Communists who are trying to destroy us from within...
...Kirby, who had studied under Whistler in Paris, regarded himself as a failure as an artist when Friend Franklin P. Adams ("F.P.A.") got him a cartooning job on the old New York Evening Mail in 1911. His pen editorials soon proved too sharp-pointed for the ultra-conservative Mail and his liberal ideas quickly got him fired from the conservative New York Sun. When he joined Pulitzer's crusading New York World in 1913, Kirby found a world...
...250th anniversar of the birth of Methodism's founder, Joh Wesley. As the titular leader of U.S. Mett odists, Philadelphia's 56-year-old Bisho Fred P. Corson, new president of the Metf odist Council of Bishops, puts the emphasi on attracting youth. "The Communist! Fascists and ultra-fundamentalists, like tb Youth for Christ," he said, "all came t power via the youth movement. We mu< face that fact and recognize that they suf plies some sort of inner urge...