Word: soundproofed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...team tackle Elizabeth's problem? In all, 15 of the institute's doctors examined her and made recommendations. She spent hours in the brain-wave laboratory and found it "great fun" to sit in a soundproof room while little wires ran out like pigtails in all directions from her scalp. Doctors explained that a pen, attached to each wire, was tracing the brain's electrical waves. The only one that showed abnormal tracings led from the spot of her childhood injury-the exact spot to be operated...
Wisdom of Solomon. In Vastervik, Sweden, the rent control board forbade Landlord Axel William Thunberg to evict Tenant Kustaa Joeesaar for snoring, but ordered the tenant to soundproof his bedroom...
Locked in a soundproof study, the staff men responsible for departmental administration lack sufficient insight into student problems. The brilliance employed in publishing a treatise invoking worldwide comment is not applied to helping the undergraduate struggling with Calenlus. Obviously divergent interests create a need for balance not achieved by mathematical formulae. The Department must show more willingness to cope with student problem and devote more energy to improving the quality of its teaching if it intends to satisfy its befuddled charges...
Rozsa writes his sound-track scores in a soundproof room at home with a cue sheet of the film script, a stopwatch, and his boxer dog Mowgli beside him. Usually by the time the studios get the script to him, he has only about six weeks to do the entire score. Much of his work sounds like a cut-&-paste job on themes and orchestral effects out of Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Ravel, Shostakovich. Some of his scores (for which he gets $15,000 to $20,000 apiece) have scarcely an original theme in them, are made up largely of a succession...
Julian West, 30, was intense, nervous, troubled with insomnia. In the old West mansion in Boston, he built a soundproof subterranean sleeping chamber, hired a mesmerist to put him to sleep. On the night of May 30, 1887 he was particularly upset. Strikes in the building trades had stopped work on his new house, delaying his marriage to lovely Edith Bartlett. At 9 p.m. Julian went to his quiet room and was put into a trance calculated to last until 9 the next morning...