Word: sound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When many of Spooner's classmates look back at their Harvard years, they come up with phrases that sound like flashy book titles...
...from a high floor down the stairwell with such unintended precision of timing that the deluge passed the last floor just as a proctor stepped out into the bottom of the stairwell. There was a direct hit on an upturned face. (My roommate and I were in bed and sound asleep by the time the proctor, moving rapidly, reached our, lower, floor.) And I remember two other events, both sponsored, I believe, by the Lampoon. A distraught "mother," whose baby carriage had inexplicably and suddenly become engulfed in flames in front of Sever at exactly 11 o'clock one morning...
Because of the extent of the renovations, the work may take two or three years to complete so as to minimize the amount of inconvenience to students. Last year, students in Adams House complained when the spring term found them awakening to the sound of jackhammers...
...asked to identify each taste at very low concentrations, and quantitative, meaning that I was asked to rate the intensity of different concentrations. During Bartoshuk's "whole-mouth" test, when I rinsed with the diluted solutions, I wore headphones and was asked to rate the strength of sound tones administered intermittently by Dr. Lawrence E. Marks, an auditory psychophysicist. This procedure, known as magnitude matching, is used as a form of control. Psychophysicists have found that a subject's perception of strength in taste concentrations usually matches the strength rating of comparable intensities of sound. Throughout the test...
Last week in Las Vegas the biggest American TV company, RCA, introduced its video products for 1985. RCA brought out a line of 54 color TVs, 18 of them equipped to provide stereo sound and 38 fitted with jumbo screens of 25 in. or more. Early next month at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, 350 firms will display their video wares...