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Word: quiets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...players' ability and desire. "The boys really believe in themselves and really want to win." he said. "After the St. John's game [which Harvard lost 73-62] they talked basketball all the way to the airport. And usually after a loss the trip is a pretty quiet one," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Basketball Team Faces Tough Dartmouth Squad | 12/6/1969 | See Source »

Nine out of ten complaints about noise in the U.S. cannot be handled by existing legislation, Baron claims. Few states and cities have restrictions on noise, and the Federal Government only last July took its first small step toward quiet. As a condition of getting or keeping federal contracts, companies must follow new Department of Labor rules controlling excessive noise in factories. So far, Baron's lobbying in New York helped persuade Mayor John Lindsay to appoint a special task force on noise control. Its recommendations include such specific-and belated-moves as a crackdown on rumbling trucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Crusader for Quiet | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...compressor from Germany. With a well-honed sense of the dramatic, he demonstrated it beside the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center. Though the machine did not operate sotto voce, neither did it bellow. One U.S. manufacturer, Ingersoll-Rand, was sufficiently impressed to start producing a similar line of quiet compressors (from $30 to $4,500 more expensive than the unmuffled varieties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Crusader for Quiet | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

LOOKING for a new experience? Always check out University Hall first to see if it is being occupied-but then, if the scene there is quiet go to Mem Hall and try giving blood. My blood debut came last week. and it booked me on becoming a regular donor...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber, | Title: And Life Blood Today at Mem Hall | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

MONDAY was the first day of December and the first real snowfall. It was cold and quiet and flavored with post-vacation inertia. Monday night the U.S. government, as if waiting for a tranquil moment, pulled oil the piece de resistance of all its absurdities...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Golden, | Title: Death The Numbers Game | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

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