Word: soundproofed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operating room itself, walled in apple-green glass tile, is soundproof, dustproof, conditioned by gravity-fed air, and as nearly germproof and explosion-proof as human ingenuity can make it. Above the operating table, which can be tilted six ways, is a television camera (nested in a battery of lights) with lenses for closeup, normal and wide-view shots. The surgeons, anesthesiologist and physiologist wear combination stethoscope-intercom receivers...
...their soundproof hearing room, members of Congress' Joint Committee on Atomic Energy broke a three-month deadlock (TIME, March 23). By unanimous vote last week, they elected New York's Representative W. Sterling Cole as their chairman and Iowa's Senator Bourke B. Hickenlooper as vice chairman...
...exposed to the same paradox in Kinsey's plant, which is called the Institute of Sex Research, Inc. The atmosphere is one of surgical asepsis, and each room is as clean and functional as the inside of a clock. Doors are heavy, made of a three-ply, soundproof material, and they have substantial locks. Kinsey carries numerous keys, and his progress from room to room, cabinet to cabinet, or file to file, is slow, because each has to be unlocked carefully. In Kinsey's own office, no single piece of paper is ever in evidence unless...
...International Amphitheater, chosen chiefly because it has more room for TV coverage than the otherwise more convenient Chicago Stadium, was one vast TV studio. Corridors and galleries were transformed into an eerie world where technicians manhandled reality, mixed sound and split sight. There were rooms with soundproof walls and rooms with glass windows, interview rooms and control rooms and silent, forbidding rooms of mysterious purpose...
Oddest odd job in the University is probably that held by Norman Brown, winner of a recent B.U. News "oddest job" contest. Brown is currently occupied with cleaning out the small holes in the soundproof panelling in the Adams House dining hall--with toothpicks...