Word: penciled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wasn't a needle at all. One of the group had bought a special pencil, was marking the backs of hands with symbols that would show up under the ultraviolet lamp used by a local casino to check admissions to the twist dance that night. The entrepreneur was doing a rush business. Regular admission price: $1.70. His rate...
...trick is to make the clean air from the filters keep the room clean. It flows at 1 m.p.h. (a very faint breeze) across the workbench and past the people working at it. Workmen can dress in ordinary clothes and smoke if they desire. Dandruff, tobacco smoke, pencil dust and any other particles generated are carried away by the clean air, whisked down through the grating floor, and discharged outdoors. Every six seconds the room gets a change of ultra-clean air. No particles get a chance to circulate, and as a result, Physicist Whitfield's room...
...looks like the young Shirley Temple. Her ensuing seduction of Jonathan on Mamma's bed is as hilarious a scene as I can recall. And when Dad's corpse enters the proceedings, she uses his arm to punctuate her speech as nonchalantly is one would a fork or pencil at table...
Near the door of 226, which is the Committee's front office, a secretary sits at a desk overflowing with copies of The Worker. Methodically, she circles names with a red pencil. On the walls hang several small landscape paintings. But over a desk at the rear of the room hangs an automobile bumper sticker which reads "BEAT KHRUSHCHEV" in irridescent orange letters...
...decibels (the unit for measuring sound) and distracting noise 30, the best solution is not to add expensive soundproofing but to increase the background noise by 15 or more decibels. In a Rhode Island hospital, when doctors complained that conversations carried from one office to the next, a pencil-sized cylinder was installed in the air-conditioning outlets. "The resulting steady whoosh raised the level of background noise and made the offices quieter-freer of distraction," said Newman. At M.I.T., when the library's noisy air blowers were turned off, students looked up whenever a phone rang or someone...