Word: quietly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this scale, according to LIFE Science Library's Sound and Hearing, normal breathing measures 10 decibels, leaves rustling in a breeze score 20, a quiet restaurant 50, busy traffic 70, Niagara Falls 90, machine-gun fire at close range 130, a jet at takeoff 140, and a space rocket...
...this noise about noise seems unnecessarily shrill, considering how much mankind loves the stuff. Italians put Alfa-Romeo horns on Fiats, and sometimes honk until the battery goes dead. Long before the chuffy steam engine, the average town was anything but a hushed haven of peace and quiet; one need only sample the nonstop bell ringing, banging and conversational yelling that still goes on from dawn to dark in any little Spanish fishing village. Men make noise as a way of showing their vitality, and they welcome the noises others make as tokens against loneliness...
...light and glassy rather than the solid and massive, says Acoustical Engineer Leo Beranek, seems to be based "not on function but on poetry. Spaces are not isolated, but continue without barrier through glass, grilles and gardens. But continuous structures and the open plan are inimical to quiet living." From one room to another flow the sounds of whirring mixers, juicers and garbage grinders, babbling radios and television sets, humming refrigerators and air conditioners. The air conditioner's metallic threnody, in fact, is one of the important new sounds of America. It hangs in the air above close-nestled...
...Quiet Motorbike...
...offense to slam a car door too loudly. France confiscates automobiles that repeat noise violations. The rubber, plastic-or leather-guarded garbage can is commonplace in London, Paris and Berlin-an improvement that could hush Manhattan's most characteristic and deafening early-morning sound. Bermuda has instituted the quiet motorbike. Outboard motors are losing their bark; truck mufflers that kill the roar are available...