Word: captioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Apropos your caption "Footnotes" in your issue of July 12, p. 2, permit the undersigned, as one who directly or indirectly has secured at least ten subscribers (and more readers) for TIME, to voice his emphatic approval of your use of the footnote...
Sirs: Is it too late to point out a possible misleading statement under the caption, "Eloquent Hoosier," in TIME, May 17, under EDUCATION ? Professor Brigance may well be proud of the orator he has trained for victory this year, and of the splendid record made by Wabash in recent years; but his suggestion that his college has an undisputed claim to the hypothetical "crown of American oratory" is tenable only if the contests of the last few years are taken into account. Beloit College won the Interstate Contest in 1899 and again in 1902, 1903 and 1904-four times...
...preach a doctrine of struggle toward the unattainable, to suggest a departure from the paths of indolence and case--that is to play the hypocrite. For in this case as in many others the precise caption is--"Aren't we all?" But one can regret that in this great number of graduates from these many American universities and colleges there will be so few who will strive, not as a moth for a star, because the moth never does see the star, but as vigorous, vital human beings toward the high hills of existence which neither a contented faculty...
...current issue of the Nation contains an article by William Pickens in which he commends recent attempts by the students at various universities to assist in bringing a trifle nearer solution that problem which has faced this country for so many years under the caption, "color-line." Many books and much discussion have effected little. And in a time when the youth of the nation is shouldering so many of the difficulties which their very vigor and intrepidly enable them to carry it is interesting to realize that some of the student youth of the country dare to tread upon...
...eyes are smeared with black. She might be any age, this sad, sharpened Jewess; the thing that has pointed her bones and thinned her flesh is not age but weariness; she is the incarnation of the most desolate of physical woes, fatigue. "Are You Tired of Giving?" asks the caption. "You Don't Know What It Is to Be Tired...