Indeed, even advertisements for healthy food now promise "a thicker slice" and "more gravy."

In 1952, advertisements for a train with big picture windows promised "all-weather" comfort.

An advertisement in Britain for a cold relief capsule, for instance, would promise no more than that it might make you feel a little better.

"Kill your friends guilt free," an advertisement for one video game promised.

Packaging and advertisements promise consumers that this form of fish oil can lower cholesterol and prevent heart attacks.

The advertisements promised that anyone taller than Nostrand would receive free admission to the opening game.

The advertisement promised, twice, to protect the identity of anyone blowing the whistle.

He happens upon an advertisement in a London magazine promising the prospect of financial gain.

The advertisement in the New York Sun promised that the meeting would be highly entertaining.

Their advertisement promised their Model B "runs indefinitely without attention."