Word: felt
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...courses for prospective engineers. For instance, in the field of power generation--a matter of increasing interest in modern life--two separate courses on mechanical and electrical power, respectively, have been combined into one general course (Engineering Sciences 8). Although this will reduce the offering temporarily, no doubt is felt that the new course will meet the general demand better than...
Norman Angell, in his address last night on "The Foundations of International Polity," emphasized the utter futility of warfare, and presented his case on actual social, political, and economic reasoning. He pointed out that there is an international effect of all wars; the reaction is always felt in financial and industrial circles all over the world, as illustrated by the example of how the Balkan Wars resulted in unemployment for 5000 men in an American city. He styled as fallacious and mediaeval the popular European excuse for armament; that in future "some new territory must be conquered for the expanding...
...strength and attention, and diminishes the efficiency of employees. The question has been solved by Dean Sabine, who, in 1895, began a series of experiments to determine the sound-absorbing qualities of various types of walls, floors, furniture and their coverings. The important result was the discovery that hair felt, when applied to the walls and ceilings, would practically destroy echoes or reverberations of all ordinary sounds, and thus reduce the total volume. Other fabrics, it was found, would absorb sound in lesser degrees...
...room is proportional inversely to the absorbing power of the material in the room," Dean Sabine has made careful experiments to determine the absorption value of the common forms of construction used in office walls and movable partitions. He has established the fact that a square yard of felt of a given thickness will absorb a certain amount of noise, and that if there is an overplus of noise, one must simply put up a corresponding area of sound-proof blanket. He has produced a long-fibre product of felt, designed to secure strength without losing absorbing power. The general...
...committee of men in the Medical School was appointed to report whether or not they felt that there was a field for religious and social service work in that department of the University. Mr. W. R. Ohler, 4 M., was appointed Secretary of the Committee, and you have all heard his report, and have heard of the opportunities which have been presented for this kind of work in the Medical School...