Word: soundproofing
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...casualty list sharply increased the need for help, and in 1951 Recording for the Blind was incorporated. Now, at the New York headquarters and 15 other recording units from Miami to Los Angeles, teams of readers and monitors (who check the spoken word against the text) spend hours inside soundproof booths to build up a catalogue of titles that stands at 7,000 and is growing by 1,600 a year...
...comparison, the Study Center will be a showcase of modern technology. A projection room, also equipped with closed circuit television, will be used for showing documentary films. Microfilm facilities will be available to students, and there will be a soundproof typing room on each floor. A comfortable furnished poetry-listening room will be large enough or use by groups, and the Morse Music Library will be moved from Holmes into the new building. Other special provisions will include a modern language lab, and a room equipped for science concentrators...
...Soundproof Partying. "The privacy is wonderful," says Mrs. Richardson Spofford, a biology professor at the University of Chicago, who lives with her accountant husband, their three-year-old son, her mother and a couple of students in the 18-room Tudor mansion that once belonged to the Wilson meatpacking family. "The rooms are virtually soundproof. My mother can be playing television full blast and I'll never hear it. When the annual community ball is given in our ballroom, Mother doesn't hear...
Judge Matthew Pagan, who lives-quietly-in a substantially soundproof, 50-year-old brownstone and seems to feel that things have come to a pretty pass when a man can't snore the night away in his own bed without being afraid of waking the neighbors, suggested that both consult their landlord about what might be done to dampen the high fidelity of the Sheir snoring, and that everybody show up in court again next month...
...seven-room apartment, and $18,576 a year maintenance), some of the tinder-traps-on-Hudson are finding it hard to land customers. Apartment seekers frequently are offered half a year's rent free as a lure. The older, more substantial buildings with high ceilings, soundproof walls, and proper entrance halls and dining rooms are coming back into their own, with the result that most of them are being converted into co-ops by tenants who want to ensure their footholds...