Word: ultramodernism
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Explained one new-look sadhu at the training center last week: "We will be a double-edged sword, cutting at conservatism on the one hand, and on the other hand checking the ultramodern tendencies that threaten to destroy the Indian way of life and culture...
...last week at Fort Worth, Texas, Air Force officers happily hinted that the Hustler's performance was forcing a flurry of tactical recalculations. It has flown at Mach 2-twice the speed of sound (Mach 2 at 40,000 ft. is 1,300 m.p.h.). A few ultramodern U.S. fighters may be faster in short spurts, but they would have trouble climbing from the ground in time to catch a Hustler at high altitude. Supersonic F-102 fighters must use their afterburners, at heavy cost in fuel, to stay anywhere near it. Even many rocket-pushed missiles...
...week at a ground-breaking ceremony for the Houston Museum of Fine Arts' $860,000 building-expansion program. There to wield a special silver shovel were Donors Nina Cullinan (daughter of Texas Co. Founder Joseph S. Cullinan), who is putting up more than $430,000 for a new, ultramodern, Mies van der Rohe-designed museum wing, and Mrs. Olga Wiess (widow of Humble Oil Co. Co-Founder Harry Wiess), who with other Texans, including the Jesse Jones family, contributed enough for remodeling and air-conditioning the present galleries...
...sprang up in dozens of cities across the U.S., gave to the new university as generously as if it had been their own alma mater. Gradually the faculty grew to 160, the student body to 1,070, the annual budget to nearly $3,000,000. Around the great castle ultramodern buildings arose, including three separate chapels for Jews, Roman Catholics and Protestants...
...This kept her roving through mine, mill and smelter for a dozen years. She combatted the effects of such anciently known poisons as mercury, used by hatters in matting felt and a frequent cause of brain damage (hence, some say, the expression "mad as a hatter"). And she fought ultramodern lethal concoctions-TNT, aniline dyes, picric acid, which stained its workers so yellow that they were dubbed "canaries." She campaigned for ventilation, antitoxic rinses, safeguards of all kinds...