Word: dampener
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...orchestra can play its best in a half-empty concert hall. The many vacant seats in Sanders Theatre would dampen anyone's spirits, and it was most unfortunate that the H.-R. O. had to compete last week with hour exams. Since the group this year is composed entirely of Harvard-Radcliffe talent, local support is more important than ever. Next month's concert will feature Handel's "Messiah" and both music and musicians deserve a full house...
Dances at the clubs turn into wild affairs where liquor is used freely and everybody has a good time. Needless to say on Sundays the parties effects somewhat dampen the elation, but, though handicapped, the Tiger certainly makes out better than during the week...
...whole TV boom that shaky? Worried Wall Streeters who had thought that the TV bubble might burst and dampen the whole market were changing their minds. Many TV stocks were actually living up to their high speculative hopes. For example, Emerson, though it was still selling around $35, had just turned in first-half profits of $3.47, thus was priced no more than a conservative five times its earnings. "You can call it speculation," said one thoughtful stock-market official last week, "but the figures on the use of television sets seem to lend a firm base to this kind...
...oxygen and regular hydrogen in water would be enough to dampen the chain reaction, so that the water would never explode...
...that the Republicans had suggested was that taxes be cut. Republicans were convinced that this would reduce prices in the long run. But it would do little, immediately, to dampen down the combustible factors which threatened to send prices soaring again...