Word: decibels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cleverest man alive") has allowed his pipe dreams only a soupcon of surrealist-Freudian flavor. The surreal touch is applied to several scenes with absolute poetic Tightness: by retarding to slow motion Beauty's terror-struck sprint through the Beast's castle, Cocteau conveys every decibel of the shriek she cannot release. There is also plenty of surreal wit: the Beast's eyes, ears, nose and fingernails fume when the fires of lust blaze up in him; and Beauty's tears turn to diamonds on her cheeks...
...agonizing stages of development as a hot instrument from its first bicycle horn-like groping right down to the present era of squealing reeds and cyclone phrasing, heads the list. He will do battle with Illinois Jacquet, one of the younger fry, whose playing measured by the decibel and the foot pound is unexcelled...
...decibel is the least difference in amount of sound perceptible by the human...
...National War Labor Board's tall, blond arbitrator, Dean Young Berryman Smith, 54, of Columbia University, handed in a 2,000-word decision that should enable management in the future to speak in a voice raised at least one decibel above a whisper. Dean Smith was called to arbitrate an unauthorized C.I.O. walkout staged by Wright Aeronautical Corp. workers. Their grievance: they disliked a foundry assistant supervisor, Albert Knowles, and demanded that he be fired...
...high decibel mark of applause was reached when she said: ". . . Now the prevailing opinion seems to consider the defeat of the Japanese as of relative unimportance and that Hitler is our first concern. This is not borne out by actual facts, nor is it to the interests of the United Nations as a whole to allow Japan to continue...