Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Planners. Credit for this ultra-modern document under Chairman Kennedy's signature goes to spade worker Robert Emerson Lees, onetime WPA Airport & Airways assistant director who joined the Maritime Commission eleven months ago, and to Aeronautical Adviser Grover Cleveland Loening, under whose direct supervision the report was drawn up. Adviser Loening, 49, appointed to the Commission six months ago, is a rich, dapper socialite, honest and unafraid of officialdom. A life-long aviation enthusiast, and manufacturer of the world's first successful amphibian, he said two years ago in his book Our Wings Grow Faster: "The handwriting...
...spread of infection caused by micro-organisms in the air, particularly bacteria and living virus, may be combated by the use of ultra-violet light barriers which destroy the organisms...
Said John Sloan four years ago: "Painting . . . has been getting sicker and sicker for over 100 years. The ultra moderns will cure it." Signs of such a cure were evident in devices of composition which Mervin Jules has apparently borrowed from trick photography and the fantastic school, used for his own purposes...
Word spread through Los Angeles fortnight ago that the city's Art Association was soon to open an ultra-select exhibit of International Art, to whose vernissage none but California's double thick social cream would be invited. One day last week the invited cream, 2,000 strong, flowed fatly to the intimate opening. They came from parties given by such art-lovers as Norma Shearer and Mrs. Randolph Huntington Miner and jostled, perspired, stared at each other instead of at the pictures. After the first day, the milk of the citizenry to the number...
Several facts made it clear that much more than simple bad luck was involved. Before the hop-off, when capable Navigator Noonan inspected what he supposed was an ultra-modern "flying laboratory," he was dismayed to discover that there was nothing with which to take celestial bearings except an ordinary ship sextant. He remedied that by borrowing a modern bubble octant designed especially for airplane navigation. For estimating wind drift over the sea, he obtained two dozen aluminum powder bombs. For some reason these bombs were left behind in a storehouse. The Coast Guard cutter Itasca, which had been dispatched...