Word: quieter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Please Enter In." For quieter moments, Bangkok offers quieter delights. "Turn to your right," says the city's popular guidebook, Black Shadow, after listing the theaters, restaurants, nightclubs and sporting events in town, "and you will at last catch sight of the one attractive house standing magnificently in a narrow passage. This is the place of your destination. Please enter in. These young and charming girls has each her own style of love. She is, however, at your service. Charges: Ticals 50.00 and 100.00. There are many more beautiful ones but with higher charges." The visitor, diffident at entering...
...hear a cry of "Look out!" Hargrave's test showed serious, unsuspected damage to his hearing. ¶ More than half the shipyard workers examined by Hargrave had subnormal hearing; 27% had serious defects. Operators of ear-splitting chipping guns showed serious defects in 52% of cases, but in quieter trades the rate was under 10%. ¶ Workers with poor hearing (whether they know it or not) are emotionally upset. Instead of becoming dulled to noise, they become super-sensitive to it. Said one chipper: "When I go home I want peace & quiet more than food. If my kids make...
Most of the processing work is done by remote control. The quieter isotopes can be watched through glass or plastic. The stronger ones must be watched with mirrors, as Perseus watched Medusa reflected in his polished shield. The gamma rays they send out pass right through a mirror and do not strike the worker who is watching from one side...