Word: absorbing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...must be conquered for the expanding population." Modern commercialism, with its intricate system of ownerships sales, and general business transactions would never permit the crudities of confiscation and destruction. Matters of interest and insurance are far too interwoven for that. Furthermore, experience has shown that one nation can not absorb the people of another, and so the plan of finding a New Germany, or a New France, is impossible. When the whole matter is boiled down to essentials, it is seen that the real reason for international armament lies in each country's fear of the other's aggression...
...employers are confronted with the problem of eliminating noise in their offices, for they have found that it consumes strength and attention, and diminishes the efficiency of employees. The question has been solved by Dean Sabine, who, in 1895, began a series of experiments to determine the sound-absorbing qualities of various types of walls, floors, furniture and their coverings. The important result was the discovery that hair felt, when applied to the walls and ceilings, would practically destroy echoes or reverberations of all ordinary sounds, and thus reduce the total volume. Other fabrics, it was found, would absorb sound...
Laying down the rule that "the average loudness of a sound in a room is proportional inversely to the absorbing power of the material in the room," Dean Sabine has made careful experiments to determine the absorption value of the common forms of construction used in office walls and movable partitions. He has established the fact that a square yard of felt of a given thickness will absorb a certain amount of noise, and that if there is an overplus of noise, one must simply put up a corresponding area of sound-proof blanket. He has produced a long-fibre...
...Saturday, May 23, for the New England intercollegiate championships was granted last week by the College. While this track meet is going on in the Stadium, Harvard will be playing Princeton on the baseball diamond. Because of the difference between the activities it is believed that neither event will absorb interest from the other...
First the effect of forests upon rainfall is to be considered. They cause the presence of a greater total amount of moisture in the air and they cool the air, thereby facilitating its precipitation, while its bed of humus will act like a sponge and absorb the percolation...