Word: zoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loudspeaker, which they placed directly behind the microphone. When a sound wave hits the microphone, the loudspeaker reacts in such a way that it increases or reduces the air pressure in its vicinity just enough to cancel out the sound wave. The result is a small "quiet zone" near the microphone...
...constant menace; live wires lay tangled in the mess. The British occupiers offered the remains of the equipment to British automakers and other businessmen of the Commonwealth. They all turned it down. Says Heinz Nordhoff: "Volkswagen didn't even smell good enough for the Russians," whose occupation zone begins only ten miles away...
Sognnaes and Shaw have shown that enamel is also quite dependent on the rest of the body. Using radioactive cancer elements in their University laboratory, they have discovered an unceasingly way traffic of ions in the enamel zone of calcium and phosphorous, a freely exchangeable...
...Come & Be Free." The Chinese prisoners came in columns of five, and proudly, out of the neutral zone (see NEWS IN PICTURES). The first two men flourished pictures of Chiang Kai-shek and of Sun Yatsen, the founder of China's republic. The tight-drawn ranks bore red, white and blue Nationalist banners, the Stars and Stripes, the pale blue and white of the U.N. Some P.W.s wielded crude, homemade flagstaffs, their jagged points torn from beer cans. A few kept their prison camp basketballs. One clasped a French horn. "Dear anti-Communist comrades," boomed a loudspeaker...
...after World War II when a huge, jaundice-yellow garage appeared at one end of the famed old street. The Marguttiani organized a committee for the defense of their neighborhood, and last fall the Italian Ministry of Public Instruction halted further ravages by decreeing that Via Margutta is a "zone of notable public interest," in which no new buildings may be built or existing décor altered without government consent.* Last week Italian architects were hard at work on plans for the restoration of the street. The government had offered a prize of 1,000,000 lire...