Word: decibel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with Roderigo, played, with scant talent, by John Bethel. Gaydos seldom allowed himself the luxury of shouting, and even tried to tone down some of Heffron's more volatile scenes. His Iago was, perhaps, too good a fellow, but it is better to have that interpretation than a high-decibel reading without any shading...
When a jet plane passes overhead, most people hear an earsplitting, nerve-jangling wail. But it may be only "an audible illusion," says General Electric Co. After measuring both with decibel tests, G.E. announced last week that the air-to-ground noise of a jet engine is actually about the same as or even less than that from a piston-driven plane of equal horsepower. A jet just seems louder because it travels faster and its noise strikes the ear more abruptly. Also, said G.E., the shriek of a jet is a comparatively new sound and thus attracts more attention...
...everything so perfect . . . If we miss a note now & then, is that so important? What counts is the enthusiasm." At Cincinnati's 38th biennial May Music Festival, famed Metropolitan Opera Conductor Fritz Busch was getting just about all the enthusiasm he could handle, and he enjoyed every decibel...
...wrestling with the microphone, he gave his audiences not a moment's emotional letup. But to oldtimers who remembered another generation of revivalists-Sam Jones, Gypsy Smith, Sunday himself-Graham and his entourage looked disturbingly like something out of Hollywood. His sharply cut double-breasted suits and high-decibel ties, like those of his Co-Evangelist Grady Wilson, 30, and black-haired, 26-year-old Platform Manager Cliff Barrows, were a smooth contrast to the rumpled, homespun approach of the old school...
House Beautiful. By year's end the full-throated roar of industry was only a decibel below the volume it had had at the start. The gross national product (total expenditures for all goods and services) reached $259 billion, only about 2% under 1948's alltime peacetime high...