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Wirephoto
American
[wahyuhr-foh-toh]
/ ˈwaɪərˌfoʊ toʊ /
Trademark.
Wirephotos
plural
verb (used with object)
Wirephotoed,
Wirephotoing
wirephoto
British
/ ˈwaɪəˌfəʊtəʊ /
noun
Example Sentences
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His lines of communication were greatly extended in 1935 when the Associated Press inaugurated its first Wirephoto transmission service.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was thus in a position to draw level pictorially with the rival Daily News by splitting with it the $150,000 yearly New York fee for the A. P.'s Wirephoto service.
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
Any of A. P.'s 1,200 members is eligible for Wirephoto, simply by sharing the cost.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the second day, however, the murder trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann began at Flemington, N. J. and thereafter Wirephoto had a chance to prove its worth.
From Time Magazine Archive
A Midwest member got on the wire, blatted the news to all wirephoto points by asking the New York office: "What about pictures on Roosevelt at Casablanca?"
From Time Magazine Archive
He had a $50 bill, a sign that said "Rose Bowl or Bust," a box of his mother's chicken sandwiches, and letters to wirephoto bureaus along the way.
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
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
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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