With Internet-delivered music, Dolby's noise-reduction matters more now than in 1965, when Dolby first observed that the voltage of hiss in audiotape outmatched the music by a factor of 1, 000 to 1.

FORBES: Aural Surgery

It was therefore ironic that his most famous achievement was to build a typewriter at the request of the defence lawyers for Alger Hiss, who was accused in 1948 of spying for the Soviet Union.

ECONOMIST: Martin Tytell

He did not know anything beyond the hiss and screech of fighter planes passing overhead and the missiles falling, the bears bellowing in another part of the fortress, and the sudden silence of the birds.

NEWYORKER: The Tiger��s Wife

As if one, every feminist of childbearing age in America (we exaggerate, but only slightly) simultaneously arched her back and let out a deafening hiss.

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