Word: noiseless
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...upon the sound of words... you had become so thoroughly accustomed to the sound in connection with reading the words that you would have difficulty breaking away from the necessity of hearing the sound as you read the words." In most adults, this oral pronunciation is suppressed into a noiseless subvocalization which means that the word cannot be recognized until it is heard by mind...
...more subjective ways. Living near the end of a jet runway, for example, does not bother airport employees nearly so much as airplane haters, whose complaints about noise rise sharply just after crashes. Typewriters may irritate nearby people, but typists need some clickety-clack for job-satisfaction; using a noiseless machine, says J. B. Priestley, is like "typing on a steak and kidney pudding...
...creation of parks and "a green legacy" for the future. He was describing, in his own phrases, "the City of Promise," and in its attention to detail, the vision was almost worthy of some of the classic Utopians such as Étienne Cabet, who dreamed of a noiseless, dustless community, and Charles Fourier, who wanted to make lemonade from the sea. On closer inspection, the President's Utopian proposals were certainly within the realm of the possible in an America that feels it can do anything. The question for the people to decide was whether they would want...
This modest beginning in research, however, has already produced remarkable returns. Papermakers have invented everything from noiseless popcorn bags to paper tents, are currently working with textile manufacturers to develop paper suitable for disposable surgical gowns, bed sheets and men's shirts. Paper coated with plas tic or aluminum is much used in food packaging. Other new products...
...society: "I feel quite antisocial, against this social whole as it exists. I wish one could be a pirate or highwayman in these days. But my way of shooting them with noiseless bullets that explode in their souls, these social people of today, is more satisfying ... I disbelieve utterly in the public, in humanity, in the mass...