Word: comforting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the assistance of Gordon E. Peterson, research fellow in the Psycho Acoustic Lab. Davis made painstaking tests to find out more about the workings of the partially deafened ear, and to measure the loudest sound which both normal and defened subjects could tolerate with comfort. Using conscientious objectors as guinea pigs, he was able to design the "theoretically perfect hearing...
Such is the plight of the quarter-million whites and Eurasians who had once ruled Java. Before the war they had attained a comfort of living probably unmatched elsewhere. Now their sprawling, marble-floored houses are occupied by British officers (in unreclaimed cities, by Indonesians). An estimated 200,000 Dutch and Indo-Europeans remain in Java, many of them still living in former Japanese "hell camps"; 17,000 evacuees are in crowded, poorly supplied camps in Singapore, 11,000 in Bangkok. Some 15,000 are hostages of the Indonesian rebels...
Strike-happy Americans could take comfort; other people were crazy too. Around the world last week, labor, management and government were at each other's throats...
Latin America was at the crossroads. The 20 republics to the south, and their 134 million citizens, had emerged from the second world war as partners on the side that won it. Debtors, most of them for decades, they suddenly found themselves too rich for comfort, with some $4 billion in credits on the exchanges of the world. What they would do with it, what they could do with it, would shape the pattern of hemisphere life...
They had substantial gripes, too. Not the least of them were the frequent failures of a poorly indoctrinated officer corps, which paid less & less attention to the G.I.s and more & more attention to its own comfort and amusement. While officers played, the men went to seed...