Word: quieter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used to come to Lamont because it was quieter than my room. Now I try to stay away because my room is quieter than Lamont," he added...
...similar successes and problems. All three programs were initiated by students with faculty support. Martha Pollock, coordinating assistant of the Penn program, says agitation at her school in the early 1970s included 'sit-ins and other exciting thing." Cathy Portuges, coordinator of the UMass program, says that things were quieter there. She said the students had strong faculty support, particularly from women teaching courses on women in the English department. It should be pointed out, however, that each of these schools had many more courses in the field before the concentration was set up than Harvard...
Rulan C. Pian, master of South House, is also optimistic about the feeling of community at her House. The House is quieter and more friendly than the River Houses and the masters want to keep it that way, she says...
...applicable to J.F.K. The impact of sound varies from person to person and place to place. Thus, how much additional discomfort the Concorde will inflict on the airport's distressingly noisy neighborhood can be determined only by on-site testing. The Concorde will not make the area any quieter; but it seems unlikely that the four daily flights the British and French are seeking will perceptibly add to the annoyance already caused by the nearly 1,000 daily landings and takeoffs by subsonic aircraft...
...faults, like those of the first generation of almost any other technological breakthrough, make it the ugly duckling of its species. But through experience gained by maximum usage of the Concorde, developers of future SSTs should be able to move up the learning curve to design cleaner, quieter and more efficient supersonic planes. By banning the plane, New York would exclude itself from this pioneering process-an odd role for a city that prides itself on being a pacesetter for the world. Thus, before Concorde service at J.F.K. is ruled detrimental to the commonweal, the big bird deserves at least...