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Word: caption (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt types her own copy. Last year she allowed her photograph to be used in an advertisement (proceeds to charity) for Remington portable typewriters with this caption: "It's my pet typewriter. ... I like its touch. It writes very fast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Just Babies | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

...comparatively small advertising agency of Soule, Feeley & Richmond started it. The agency's first idea was that the advertiser should undertake full sponsorship of the entire feature, with some such caption as: "Squibb Presents . . . Liberty's well-known Twenty Questions," but Squibb deemed it too radical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Advt. of the Week | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

...week to type in what looked like its final week-end edition. As tailpiece to an affronting chapter in U. S. journalism, on the front of the rotogravure section was the picture of a film actress with a robe slipping from her shoulders and thighs. Beneath her was a caption for a story on an inside page: SEX MYSTERIES REVEALED...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Out Steps Tichenor | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

York Times magazine . . . was using quotations from the printed text to caption pictures before TIME was born...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Third House | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

...sentence "Last week these names made this news" brings to my memory an excerpt of correspondence, I believe accredited to Samuel Johnson, in which he answers a request for news by the assertion "No. not a single new." Perhaps you should change your caption to read, "Last week these names made these news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Third House | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

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