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...sound absorptive materials can reduce the din caused by reverberation of sound in the room where it originates,--which, in the case of Harvard dining halls, is more desirable than containing the sound. Sound absorptive materials do not greatly attenuate noise passing through it, and so do not "soundproof." Attenuation of noise in transmission is achieved by air-tight and usually heavy constructions...
...pass this information on in the hope that it may be of value, financial and spiritual, to your readers after they leave their quiet halls for the din and noise of life. Preston W. Smith, Jr., Cambridge Acoustical Associates...
...northern edge of Brussels, workmen in wooden shoes this week are ripping wooden forms from concrete columns, troweling plaster into place, and punctuating the din of hammering and riveting with curses in half a dozen languages. Forty-four nations are striving to ready their pavilions for the Brussels World's Fair, which opens April 17. Behind the fair's grand display of bunting, chrome, cantilevers and parasol domes lies a deeply serious purpose. By next autumn, some 35 million visitors (all Brussels hotels are booked solid for three months after the fair opens) will file through the gates...
...Shvetsov. He mounted the stage, accompanied by a bestial racket from the left that was to continue for hours. Mingled with the shouts and whistles were howls and yells, stamping of feet and pounding on desktops. The galleries, jammed with members of the Bolshevik party, added to the appalling din...
...1920s, Turkey's Mustafa Kemal Ataturk prohibited "astrologers, fortunetellers and dervishes," and the Mevlevi order went underground. Now the ban is being lifted quietly by the Turkish government; in addition to its monastic members, the order has some half million lay members in Turkey. That Founder Jalal al-Din Rumi and his teachings are still a living force was demonstrated last week in Istanbul when 200 policemen turned out to cope with 4,000 enthusiasts who broke the windows and smashed the counter of the city's main post office. Cause of the riot: a scramble...