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Word: earplugs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...devices will not reach retail outlets until next fall, it is too early to predict the reaction of audiences and noise-numbed parents. But judging from the enthusiasm of dealers and observers at last week's industry show, there may well be a boom in earplug sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Instruments: The Current Scene | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

...microphone embedded in a bite-size rubber pad (1½ inches square, one-quarter inch thick) that can be carried in the investigator's palm, attached to an amplifier in his coat pocket; when pressed against a phone booth or a door, it relays the action through an earplug that looks like part of a hearing aid. Hotel dicks love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electronics: Bug Thy Neighbor | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

...attendants, known as "boy-san," offer cold or hot towels to travelers, and serve them cups of tea as soon as they settle in their reclining seats equipped with earplug radio receivers. Passengers too indolent to make their way to diner or buffet are served by uniformed girls trundling carts richly laden with food and sake up and down the aisles. Not the least of Kodama's claims to fame is its split-second scheduling. Trains leave with the precision of a time signal, are allowed errors of only 15 seconds in passing major stations along the route. Five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Luxury Abroad | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

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