Word: soundproofing
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...capacity of Thayer North will not be changed, but the rooms will become "much more attractive and spacious-looking." Plain brick walls, soundproof ceilings, improved heating, mahogany panelling, and new vinyl flooring are features of the rooms...
...gear their operations to the jet age. American's $75 million for new facilities will include a $14 million passenger terminal and a $12 million hangar at New York's Idlewild Airport, new hangars in several other cities. Passengers will wait for their flights in comfortable, soundproof lounges, board the jet on a single level through telescopic covered passageways that shoot out to the plane's two doors...
...Masonite wall sections prefinished inside and out with built-in insulation, ready for quick raising at the site. The outside hardboard surface is wood composition, the inside plastic-coated. Soundproof ceilings also come in composition sections with insulation pre-attached. An exterior paint made by Du Pont lasts 20 years, sharply cuts maintenance costs...
...historically almost deaf to the need for foreign-language study, may be emerging from its soundproof suite in the Tower of Babel. A report last week by the Office of Education sharply defined the deficiencies that the nation must correct to overcome its obstinate monolingualism...
...sound absorptive materials can reduce the din caused by reverberation of sound in the room where it originates,--which, in the case of Harvard dining halls, is more desirable than containing the sound. Sound absorptive materials do not greatly attenuate noise passing through it, and so do not "soundproof." Attenuation of noise in transmission is achieved by air-tight and usually heavy constructions...