Word: ultras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newest experiment in winter resorts has opened at the Harvard Club of Boston in the form of a quick-time tan applicator. Here in a little room with half a dozen cots the club members, clothed only in goggles, repose beneath the strong ultra-violet rays of a mechanical sun. In the corners of the room, to give a tropical effect, potted palms are distributed...
...Majesty calls Dr. Ninko Peritch, President of the Narodna Skupstina (Parliament), to negotiate among all parties with intent to evolve a broad coalition Cabinet. Dr. Paritch is of the so-called "Radical" party-actually reactionary and ultra Serbian...
...clock. A special attendant is in charge of the baths and makes a test to determine the amount of exposure to the actinic rays that each person should have. Complete card records are kept of every treatment taken, thus eliminating the possibilities of over-exposure. The exposure to the ultra-violet rays will vary from two minutes for new patrons to a longer time for those who have become accustomed to the treatment...
...cast out of the party (TIME, Dec. 26) and expelled from the Soviet Parliament (TIME, Jan. 16). Last week the outcasts were sorted out into grades, according to truculence, and then banished to regions of exile carefully chosen to fit their political crimes. Emerged three sharply classified groups: i) Ultra-truculent; 2) Truculent; and 3) Penitent...
...Ultra-Truculents. Exile to rot in Siberia was the sentence enforced, last week, upon the little known, ultra-truculent, blindly conservative group, formerly led in the Communist party by Comrade Sapronov. This stubborn band of heroes or madmen have braved threats of exile for years, and were the "opposition" when Trotsky was still "regular...