Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most remarkable piece of research done in making the microscope was the was the objective lens designed by David S. Gray '40, Gray's problem was to design a high-powered lens that would be simultaneously transparent to both ultra-violet and normal light without re-focussing. Mathematical calculations alone took the young scientist, who is regarded as among the five or so top lens designers in the world, over a year...
Performance of the machine has shown its possibilities to be almost limitless. It extends the range of man's color vision down one whole octave into the shorter wave length to a region never seen before. This is done by making use of the ultra-violet light emitted by living tissues when photographed under the extremely short wavelengths of ultraviolet light...
...communities, which will virtually blanket the U.S. and its possessions, from Alaska to Puerto Rico, with TV. Two hundred forty-two stations are to be set aside for noncommercial "educational use." To make sure there is room enough for everybody, FCC is also assigning 70 new ultra high frequency channels to television...
...same racial grief, the same unselective resentment which has led before to the rude rejection of all the gentle things for which the West stands. In the face of this mounting opposition, some of the permanent white populations have reacted strongly. They have, in effect, set a ne plus ultra to the march of their black peoples. They have tried to preserve their status in a sort of old imperial aspic. Their fears are human and easily understood; they have resulted in laws and arrangements that seem unjust to strangers...
Many ads are in a kind of code. Prime example, from the Washington Star: "Pack, '51 dlx 4 dr, ultra, R.H., 1262 act mi." (Translation: 1951 Packard four-door deluxe with Ultramatic Drive, radio and heater, has been driven 1262 actual miles.) From the Denver Post: "New Ig Iv rm, frpl, 2 bdrm, Ig kt, exp attic cel gar." (Translation: a new house with a large living room with fireplace, two bedrooms, large kitchen, expansion attic and cellar garage.) Automobiles are "jim dandy," "slick as a whistle," "A-i," "just like new," "never a wreck," "peachy keen," and "loaded...