Word: humanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decibel has something to do with the measurement of din, although few could define the term. Meanwhile acousticians have taken up a newer and less well-known unit, the phon, which may well become familiar to laymen because it is even more closely related to the sensibilities of the human ear than the decibel...
...decibel is an arbitrary unit such that, starting from the zero level or threshold of hearing, each increase of one decibel represents an increase of 25% in the physical intensity of the sound. The human ear has an enormous range. It is not pained by loudness until the sound is about ten trillion times as intense as a whisper at the threshold of hearing. Thus it is not very sensitive to small intensity changes. The decibel is intended to represent roughly the smallest intensity change which the ear can detect...
Back in Circulation (First National) should please cinemaddicts who admire portrayals of brash reporters and nail-hard editors whose presses must be fed regardless of human cost. This time the brazen star reporter is a female named Timmy Blake (Joan Blondell). She loves her apparently unconcerned managing editor, Bill Morgan (Pat O'Brien). He loves her too but has no time for foolishness. Between the first sequence and the last, Joan Blondell swoops through a breathlessly foreshortened flight of pseudo-newsfalconry. She gets an innocent woman indicted for murder, flattens a leering lounger with a right hook...
...adult human body contains about five quarts of blood. If more than half of this is removed at one time, the owner usually dies. Scientists in Russia claim to have removed the entire blood supply from animals, chemically "washed" it, replaced it without apparent injury. Scientists everywhere would consider this an extremely dangerous experiment for humans. Yet it might be possible to detour the bloodstream so that only a few ounces would be outside the body at any one time, yet so that all of it would pass sooner or later through the detour where it could be treated...
...National Zoological Park. Dr. Mann is now 51, slight and dark. He also has thin hair and a holdover passion for ants. When he is not hunting ants in his spare hours, he is inclined to read anything from detective stories to incunabula. Fond also of the human animal, he loves parties and has been known to seat a distinguished scientist at dinner next to a circus freak. Director Mann's system of running his zoo is one of complete democracy. He insists that when he first arrived the head keeper set him to cleaning out cuspidors...