Word: soundproof
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reparation for the disturbance created by the construction, MBTA has given Harvard several hundred thousand dollars to soundproof Wigglesworth and Straus Halls...
...indoor stadium in the Olimpiisky Sports Center will be the largest covered arena in Europe. Standing 16 stories high and seating 45,000, it can accommodate a single event, or be divided by a soundproof wall so that two contests-a basketball game and a volleyball match, for example-can go on at once...
...know how much more they could soundproof the dorm--you can always hear the pounding." Kenneth Mendez '82, a resident of Wigglesworth A-12, said yesterday...
Adjusting the levers on his four-track console, Jamaican Record Producer Lee Perry does absent-minded dance steps on a patchwork carpet composed of Ethiopia's national colors. On the studio side of the control booth's soundproof window, a singer implores "Jah," the black god who many Jamaicans believe was Haile Selassie, to deliver him from Babylon. Seated on the floor are half a dozen musicians whose hair is plaited into myriad ominous, serpentine "dreadlocks." Each man reverently smokes a large, cone-shaped "splif" filled with marijuana, and all nod agreeably whenever the singer alludes to Africa...
...holder can complain about his point of vantage. The raked, beige, tufted seats offer sight lines of geometric clarity. It is as if the air had been filtered for purer vision. The particular largesse of the Lyttelton is a side stage sealed off from the main stage by a soundproof door. A visiting company from the provinces or abroad-and Hall intends to invite them -can mount its set on the side stage during one of the National's matinees, and then slide it onto the main stage for the evening performance...