Wirephoto
Wirephoto
American
[wahyuhr-foh-toh]
/ ˈwaɪərˌfoʊ toʊ /
Trademark.
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Wirephotos
plural
verb (used with object)
Wirephotoed,
Wirephotoing
wirephoto
British
/ ˈwaɪəˌfəʊtəʊ /
noun
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Both Publisher Hearst, with his 15 A. P. memberships, and Publisher Roy Wilson Howard with his six, strenuously fought against the Wirephoto project when it was introduced at last year's A. P. meeting.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, having scooped their competitors with shots of the Rogers-Post crash, Minneapolis labor riots, the Florida hurricane, the S. S. Dixie's, grounding and lesser events, Wirephoto subscribers are well satisfied with their experiment.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oddest Wirephoto of the week: a burglar in a St. Louis tire shop stumbling over a trap that sounded a horn alarm, set off a flashlight, took his own picture.
From Time Magazine Archive
Third and hottest of all was Wirephoto and John Francis Neylan.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dullest Wirephoto of the week: the Capitol dome frosted with snow.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the background of a wirephoto showing Kim lying still, a striking number of the Caesars Palace spectators are balling their own fists.
From Time Magazine Archive
As recently as 1959, when a typhoon smashed the industrial city of Nagoya, leaving telephone and wirephoto services dead, the Nagoya Chubu Nippon used its 200 birds to rush negatives from inundated suburbs.
From Time Magazine Archive
After Brown's staff had called papers in Atlanta, Detroit and Philadelphia in search of information, the A.P. wirephoto machines started up again.
From Time Magazine Archive
Next day his photograph, distributed by A.P. wirephoto, was printed throughout the U.S., becoming a likely candidate for the 1944 Pulitzer Prize.
From Time Magazine Archive
These images were now rapidly available thanks to wirephoto services, which had debuted in Life in the month that Pollard, Howard, and Smith formed their partnership.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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