Word: glorig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...industrial workers are not the only people who are literally being deafened by the din of the technological age, Dr. Aram Glorig, director of the Callier Hearing and Speech Center in Dallas, believes that most Americans are all too blissfully ignorant of the hearing hazards in everyday life. "I wear earplugs when I mow the lawn," he says. Country living, he contends, is just as hard on the hair nerves as city life. "Take a group of skeet shooters who have been at it for five or ten years; every single one has got a severe high-frequency loss." Glorig...
...correlated to noise. Dr. Alan Carpenter, Cambridge University psychologist, reports on an experiment in which a factory soundproofed some of its perforating machines and found that production rose on all of them. For the employees, apparently, it was enough that some attention was being given to them. Otologist Glorig found in other experiments that factory employees made more mistakes both when noise was turned on and when it was turned off. Continuous music has been found to make cows give more milk, and to combat tedium and raise production in offices and factories. Muzak, a leading piper of auditory tonic...
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