Word: ultras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Theodor Herzl (1860-1904), a Hungarian Jew. Dr. Herzl negotiated fruitlessly with the Porte (Turkey) for a Palestine charter. He tried Britain, was offered sites on the Sinai Peninsula and in the East African Protectorate; but both these offers were rejected through the strong opposition of the ultra-nationalist Zionists who naturally coveted Palestine...
...members, M. Daniel Berthelot, that two friends of his, Messieurs J. Risler and P. Mondain, had a preventative and a cure for radiodermitis. Noting that the long-waved infra-red heat rays are antagonistic to shorter-waved constituents of the Xray, such as the potent ultra-violet*Risler and Mondain had contrived a "ray filter" of plastic material, penetrable only by the infra-red and yellow rays. The long-waved rays thus filtered out were then applied to living tissues that had been exposed to the destructive influence of a complete Xray. The tissue showed no ill effects. Cases...
...vibrations in the ether about them, the unaided human senses can perceive only a small portion. The spectrum of visible light runs from deep violet, with a wavelength of 16 millionths of an inch, down to deep red, with waves 28 millionths of an inch long. On the "ultra" side of this spectrum, occur the ultraviolet rays with waves 1 millionth of an inch; then a range of little-known shorter vibrations; then the famed X-rays; then, shortest of all known rays, the gamma rays given off by radium. On the infra or long wave side of visible light...
...number will be worth keeping for the things it leaves unsaid as well as for those it has committed to print. All the familiar procession of "The Dial's" characteristics has been passed in review in the preparation of this frolic. Particularly its solemn and desperate determination to be ultra about everything--poetry, essays, short stories, Parisian correspondence, and contemporary art and letters...
...once, Fascism; the ne plus ultra of national feeling, has laid itself open to the charge of inconsistency. The next Grand Council, to be held this week in Rome, is to discuss, among other agenda, the possibilities of a world-wide movement by all organizations sympathetic to Fascism. Nationalism intends to make an experiment in internationalism...