Word: coolers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to current engineering theory, quiet is created by adding noise. Such background noises as the soft buzz of a fluorescent light or the slight hiss of an air cooler do not inhibit concentration (whereas the sound of voices or footsteps does). If background noise in an office averages 20 decibels (the unit for measuring sound) and distracting noise 30, the best solution is not to add expensive soundproofing but to increase the background noise by 15 or more decibels. In a Rhode Island hospital, when doctors complained that conversations carried from one office to the next, a pencil-sized...
Where It's Cooler. Assured that the Queen would finally make the visit originally scheduled for 1959, but canceled because of the imminent birth of Prince Andrew, Ghana prettied up and cleaned up. People driving into Accra who could not prove that they had been vaccinated were summarily jabbed with a smallpox injection. To reduce the threat of pickpocketing, the police rounded up all ex-convicts on parole, threw them into the cooler for the duration of the visit. Mothers were urged not to let their children run naked in the streets...
...personnel carrier, held out three fresh pink carnations, murmured in German, "I brought you some different colors today; God bless you!" Understanding the sentiment if not the words, the young soldier accepted the flowers with a grin, muttered "Danke schön" proudly stuffed them in the perforated barrel cooler of his 20-mm. cannon. Farther up the street a pack of M48 "Patton" tanks were demurely decorated by jars of bright red asters and daisies perched on their armor...
...Boston Weather Bureau predicts increasing cloudiness today with a chance of showers in the afternoon, Highest temperature will be in the low 60's. Tonight, clearing and turning cooler...
...Connolly made an incision in the anesthetized patient's neck, to get at one of the carotid arteries that supply blood to the brain. First they drew out some blood, and added donor blood, to fill the pump-oxygenator ("heart-lung machine"). To this was attached a cooler that chilled the oxygenated blood. The surgeons led this chilled blood into the brain arteries. After about 15 minutes the brain temperature dropped to 68°. The doctors then stopped the flow and clamped all the brain arteries shut. The patient's own heart and lungs supplied fresh blood...