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Word: caption (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Uncle Sham are "The Virgin," "Accidents Will Happen" and "Fairies." Copious material is drawn from Bernarr Macfadden's ill-famed pornoGraphic. Photographs include one showing three U. S. girls in barber chairs with their faces lathered, three barbers standing by with razors upraised. The tongue-in-cheek caption gravely informs the reader that "the Eve of today ... is masculine in her strength . . . goes to the barber and uses the Gillette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Devil People? | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Manhattan papers were prompt in harassing college professors for answers which were quickly printed. An exception was the New York Mirror, gum-chewers sheet, which decided to print the questions and answers under the caption "Ediquests" at the announced rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brightest Boys | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...respectfully refer you to your "Hatched, Matched, Dispatched" caption in Letters Department, TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 24, 1929 | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Sirs: In your edition of May 27, p. 44, under the caption of Golden Jubilee, you omitted to mention the most important glass bulb without which the incandescent lamp would be impossible. The credit for the development of producing these bulbs on the scale required today belongs to the Corning Glass Works, and no small share of it to Ambassador Houghton* and his associates, who had the foresight and imagination to spend a fortune on the development of machines that would blow these bulbs, and on glass research, so that these machines could be worked. The earliest lamp bulbs were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 17, 1929 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...time a photograph of the festive scene appeared in Tokyo's English news paper, The Trans-Pacific. Read the caption: "Life in the Central Police Station always assumes a jolly air following any outstanding piece of robber-nabbing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Proud Policemen | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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