Box.—A rectangular space marked off in a story, usually at the beginning, for calling attention to the news within the box. The news is often a list of dead or injured or of athletic records, printed in bold-face type.
Break-line.—A line not filled to the end with letters, as the last line of a paragraph. In a head a break-line may contain white space on each side.
Bridge.—The raised platform in front of the magistrate's desk in police court.
Bull.—A statement or a series of statements, the terms of which are manifestly inconsistent or contradictory.
Bulldog Edition.—The earliest regular edition.
Bulletin.—A brief telegraphic message giving the barest results of an event, often an accident, unaccompanied by details.
Catch-line.—(1) A short line set in display type within the body of a story to catch the eye of the reader and enable him to get the striking details by a hasty glance down the column. (2) A line at the top of each page of copy sent to the composing room one page at a time: as, "Society," "State," "Suicide." Such lines enable the bank-men to assemble readily all the stories and parts of stories belonging together.
Chase.—A rectangular iron or steel frame into which the forms are locked for printing or stereotyping.
Condensed Type.—Type thin in comparison to its height; contrasted with extended type.
Copy.—Any manuscript prepared for the press. Blind Copy is copy that is difficult to read. Clean Copy is manuscript requiring little or no editing. Time Copy is any matter for which there is no rush,—usually held to be set up by the compositors when they would otherwise be idle, or to be used in case of a scarcity of news. The Sunday paper is filled with time copy.