Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...request is technically feasible: an exclusive channel in the ultra-high-frequency wave band over which M.P.A. could televise both movies and public events directly to U.S. theaters. With TV broadcasters mulling over the M.P.A. scheme, FCC slated hearings on it for later this month...
Within a decade the Ashcan revolution had been swallowed up in a greater one. The famed Armory show of 1913 (which Sloan helped arrange) introduced School-of-Paris art to the U.S., made stay-at-homes like Sloan seem relatively conservative. "The ultra-modern movement," Sloan later recalled, "was wonderful medicine for adults. But since then the kids have raided the medicine cabinet-and for them, it's drugs...
...postwar expansion, U.S. industry discovered that the old communications methods were not good enough. The telephone, telegraph and teletype lines that connect the scattered plants of big corporations were limited in use, expensive to install and maintain. As a solution, industry is turning to another medium: microwave transmission,* i.e., ultra-high-frequency radio...
...Finest. "Poncet Davis was and is an intimate friend of mine," said Oliphant. "He is one of the finest men I have ever met. He later told me he had tax difficulties and I disqualified myself. I was being very scrupulous with Mr. Davis. Ultra-scrupulous...
...ultra modernists were scarcely better. Dominating their wing were a jittering mobile of wire and red fins by Alexander Calder, hung incongruously under the museum's vaulted ceiling, and Alexander Archipenko's Figure, an enormous 14-ft. object of aluminum-painted iron which resembled an upended torpedo. The pleasantest of the pure abstractions was David Smith's lively Flight, which whisked round corners, took unexpected dips with the carefully tracked abandon of a rollercoaster...