Word: printed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...press time each week, our offices are piled high with paper -stories, newspapers, cables, galleys. An enormous number of words, only a small percentage of which see print, go into the preparation of every issue. Thus it seems almost daunting that the people who create and work with this instant library spend much of their leisure time putting together words on their own. At almost any time of year, a number of our staff are busy writing books or readying them for publication...
...audiences remain about the same, TV may no longer be the obligatory medium it now is for many advertisers. Already, some are turning from TV back to magazines and newspapers. In the past two years, General Foods, for instance, has more than doubled the money it spends on print advertising. "We've got a very serious problem here," admits Frank Donino of the McCann-Erickson agency. "For the first time there is a disappointment factor about the television medium," says Martin Mayer. "And that, more than the numbers themselves, is what is really roiling the waters...
...being used to print this paper...
...Boston, hundreds of artists and performers labored to prepare free, outdoor art shows and concerts for a New Year's Eve celebration. Like a scene from a 19th century print, Bostonians by the tens of thousands will wend their candlelit way past sculpture and singers, gathering on the Common for fireworks and communal cheer. In Beverly Hills, Calif, 2,000 people had been expected at a modest tree-lighting ceremony; 15,000 showed up. The once tattered social fabric is being rewoven. Across the country, charities report sharp increases in donations of all kinds. In Portland, Ore., the United...
...dictionary engaged the labor of hundreds-editors, subeditors, voluntary readers-over more than half a century. The greatest of the dictionary's editors, James A.H. Murray, died in 1915, while finishing up the letter T, 13 years before the last of the Zs (zymurgy and zynder) went into print. But in 35 years of leadership, Murray laid the plan for the dictionary and edited half of it. Murray more than anyone else established the art of historical lexicography: defining the language by its various usages through time...