Word: units
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will give us more wealth, better living and greater happiness for our children." He ended his address by saying: "I'm going to press a button and that will set everything going." He pressed, flood-lamps lighted on the speaker's stand. Bonneville's first power unit was in operation...
Thus, even though Dudley Hall has much hard work ahead in many ways before it can compare to the Houses as an active social unit, nevertheless great strides have been made in the last three years. It is to be hoped that the Hall continues during the coming months to fulfill the dreams of the men who were instrumental in founding...
...decibel is an arbitrary unit such that, starting from the zero level or threshold of hearing, each increase of one decibel represents an increase of 25% in the physical intensity of the sound. The human ear has an enormous range. It is not pained by loudness until the sound is about ten trillion times as intense as a whisper at the threshold of hearing. Thus it is not very sensitive to small intensity changes. The decibel is intended to represent roughly the smallest intensity change which the ear can detect...
Sounds of the same intensity, however, sometimes seem unequally loud to the hearer, especially when they differ in pitch, so the phon was chosen as a unit of loudness. In the British journal Nature last week Dr. George William Clarkson Kaye of the National Physical Laboratory described the phon scale as "a loudness scale which is based on the accepted ability of the average individual to compare and match loudness." Thus, while the decibel is an objective measure of a sound's physical intensity, the phon is a subjective measure of its apparent loudness to the ear. There...
...this year it has paid $1.87½ per common share. In passing last week's dividend, President Edward A. Cudahy Jr. explained: "Smaller volume of raw material, together with substantial increases in wages, various additional forms of taxes and increased costs of certain supplies, contributed to higher unit operating costs and made it increasingly difficult to earn satisfactory profits." Cudahy common last week dropped 15 points to $19.50 a share, low for the year...