Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...squad member out of the showers is picked up is their competition at an official close. All through the customary locker-room scene of jubilation or dejection they will be seen scurrying about their duties, still competing. All around them will be an atmosphere of broken discipline, as their zero hour approaches. Finally, Manager Bob Whitman '38, will call them into the Jayvee Coaches room...
...President Cohan confides: "I'm really quite a hero. I only have to say 'My friends . . .', and the stocks go down to zero...
...were bombing a loyalist munitions storehouse, and for several minutes the air was full of death-dealing missiles, which fell in large numbers all around the arsenal, but somehow or other failed either to hit their objective or even to explode when they crashed on the ground. When the zero hour was over, the loyalist troops rushed out to investigate and carefully opened all the "dud" explosives that had fallen. Inside each projectile were large quantities of sand, and in each was a polite note saying, "These bombs won't explode. Greetings to our dear comrades from their German friends...
...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...
...subjective measure of its apparent loudness to the ear. There has been some difficulty with phons in international exchanges of research results because in the U. S. the decibel was generally used as a loudness unit as well as an intensity unit and in England and Germany different zero levels, different frequencies for the reference tone and different listening techniques were in use. At a recent international conference in Paris these differences were ironed out and a standard phon scale agreed on involving a uniform listening technique, reference tone, and zero level. Some loudnesses measured on this scale are: ticking...