Writing to Speed on August 24, 1855, Lincoln made the latter point clear.

`` We, the Subscribers, do agree, that as soon as a convenient Number of Persons have subscribed to this, or a similar Writing, We will present a petition to the Hon'ble General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, praying for an Act incorporating into a Body politic the subscribers to such Writing with Liberty to build such a Bridge, and a Right to demand a Toll equal to that received at Malden Bridge, and on like Terms, and if such an Act shall be obtained, then we severally agree each with the others, that we will hold in the said Bridge the several shares set against our respective Names, the whole into two hundred shares being divided, and that we will pay such sums of Money at such Times and in such Manners, as by the said proposed Corporation, shall be directed and required ''.

Writing in a large volume on the nude in painting and sculptures, titled The Nude: A Study In Ideal Form, Kenneth Clark declares: `` The human body, as a nucleus, is rich in associations.

Writing in the 1st century BC, Horace refers to the wax abacus, a board covered with a thin layer of black wax on which columns and figures were inscribed using a stylus.

Writing three centuries later, Ibn Abi Zar suggested it was chosen early on by Abdallah Ibn Yasin because, upon finding resistance among the Gudala Berbers of Adrar ( Mauritania ) to his teaching, he took a handful of followers to erect a makeshift ribat ( monastery-fortress ) on an offshore island ( possibly Tidra island, in Arguin bay ).

Writing the rules didn't help the Knickerbockers in the first known competitive game between two clubs under the new rules, played at Elysian Fields in Hoboken, New Jersey on June 19, 1846.

Writing on Doctrine and Training in the German Army 1919 – 1939, O ’ Neill stated:

* Writing system # Directionality ( section on directionality )

Discovering History in China: American Historical Writing on the Recent Chinese Past.

He worked on such films as Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo ( 1944 ), Our Vines Have Tender Grapes ( 1945 ), and Kitty Foyle ( 1940 ), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay.

In July 1841, Poe had published an essay called " A Few Words on Secret Writing " in Graham's Magazine.

Writing the book The Presidential Succession in 1910 ( 1908 ), he called on voters to prevent the sixth re-election of Porfirio Díaz, which he considered anti-democratic.

*" In Defense of Food Writing: A Reader ’ s Manifesto " A defense of the genre by Eric LeMay based on Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food.

Writing in the spring of 1945 a long essay titled " Antisemitism in Britain ," for the Contemporary Jewish Record, Orwell stated that anti-Semitism was on the increase in Britain, and that it was " irrational and will not yield to arguments.

Writing on children's geographies, place and nature, everyday life and security.

Writing about 80 years later, in 140-150 AD, Ptolemy, drawing on the earlier naval expeditions of Agricola, also distinguished between the Ebudes, of which he writes there were only five ( and thus possibly meaning the Inner Hebrides ) and Dumna.

A National Student Metallurgists Meet is held on the second day of the event, where students from the Metallurgical, Mechanical, Chemical, Nano-Science departments of other colleges participate in a host of competitions-Technical Paper Presentation, Poster Presentation, Metallurgical Essay Writing, Metallography, Debate and Quiz competitions.

Other notable works include Workers Union ( 1975 ), a melodically indeterminate piece " for any loud sounding group of instruments "; Mausoleum ( 1979 ) for 2 baritones and large ensemble ; De Tijd ( 1979 – 81 ) for female singers and ensemble ; De Snelheid ( 1982-3 ), for 3 amplified ensembles ; De Materie ( 1984 – 88 ), a large four-part work for voices and ensemble ; collaborations with filmmaker and librettist Peter Greenaway on the film M is for Man, Music, Mozart and the operas Rosa: A Horse Drama ( 1994 ) and Writing to Vermeer ( 1998 ); and the recent La Passione ( 2000 – 02 ) for female voice, violin and ensemble.

Writing on prepared animal skins had a long history, however.

Writing duties were assisted by Ulf Lindstrom and Johan Ekhé, who also helped to produce the album, and they stayed on board with Robyn until the completion of her album Don't Stop the Music in 2003.

Writing 10 years later, Cubs ' shortstop Ernie Banks would call it the longest ball he'd seen hit at Wrigley Field ; according to Banks, the consensus among the Cubs was that " it must have traveled more than 500 feet ( 152. 4 m ) on its trip into Waveland Avenue.

Writing his Lives of Illustrious Men ( Parallel Lives ) in the first century CE, the Middle Platonic philosopher Plutarch's chapter on Romulus gave an account of his mysterious disappearance and subsequent deification, comparing it to traditional Greek beliefs such as the resurrection and physical immortalization of Alcmene and Aristeas the Proconnesian, " for they say Aristeas died in a fuller's work-shop, and his friends coming to look for him, found his body vanished ; and that some presently after, coming from abroad, said they met him traveling towards Croton.

After five operations in ten days and physical therapy, King resumed work on On Writing in July, though his hip was still shattered and he could only sit for about forty minutes before the pain became worse.

In Writing Degree Zero ( 1953 ), Barthes argues that conventions inform both language and style, rendering neither purely creative.

Writing about the Russian Tsar, Herberstein wrote that " in the power he holds over his people the ruler of Muscovy surpasses all the monarchs of the world.

" Writing before previously-embargoed material was released by the Russian authorities in the 1990s, Prange and those writing with him appear not to have accepted the veracity of this report.

Minor concentrations are available in American Studies, Archeology, Arts Administration and Museology, Asian Studies, Business, Society, and Culture, Dance, European Studies, Holocaust Studies, Humanities, Italian, Jewish Studies, Latin American Studies, Linguistic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Public Health, Russian, Western Heritage, Women's and Gender Studies, and Writing.

He would later say of this time: " I stayed in Europe for more than twenty years ; I worked in an Industrial Chemistry Laboratory [...] attended some secret socialist-oriented meetings [...] studied a little literature ; learned languages and directed a Reading and Writing School in a small Russian town ".

Though New Writing was the most durable of Penguin's periodicals it wasn't the publisher's only foray into journalism with Russian Review, Penguin Hansard and Transatlantic begun during the war, and Penguin Film Review, Penguin Music Magazine, New Biology, Penguin Parade, Penguin Science Survey and Penguin Science News having brief runs after.

Writing some years later, Dmitri Trenin and Aleksei Malashenko described the Russian military's performance in Chechniya as " grossly deficient at all levels, from commander-in-chief to the drafted private.

Writing six years later, Michael Orr said " one of the root causes of the Russian failure in 1994 – 96 was their inability to raise and deploy a properly trained military force.

Writing at first in Hebrew and Russian, he only met success when he turned to his native Yiddish ; his first successful book was Arum Vokzal ( At the Depot ) a novella, published at his own expense in 1909 in Warsaw.

In his memoirs, The Invisible Writing, Arthur Koestler recalled that in 1934, Jouvenel was among a small number of French intellectuals who promised moral and financial support to the newly-established Institut pour l ' Étude du Fascisme, a supposedly self-financing enterprise of the Popular Front.

She is a patron of Sustrans, a British charity for sustainable travel and of the Lismore Immrama Festival of Travel Writing.

A few years before her death, she was allowed to travel to the United States where she was a guest at the University of Iowa's International Writing Program.

Hanrahan has won a number of awards for writing, including The Independent newspaper's inaugural student travel writing competition, the Lawrence Jackson Award for Writing ( administered by the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council ).

Among the most important, pre-1995 monographs are: Abroad ( 1980 ) by Paul Fussell, an exploration of British interwar travel writing as escapism ; Gone Primitive: Modern Intellects, Savage Minds ( 1990 ) by Marianna Torgovnick, an inquiry into the primitivist presentation of foreign cultures ; Haunted Journeys: Desire and Transgression in European Travel Writing ( 1991 ) by Dennis Porter, a close look at the psychological correlatives of travel ; Discourses of Difference: An Analysis of Women ’ s Travel Writing by Sara Mills, an inquiry into the intersection of gender and colonialism during the 19th century ; Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation ( 1992 ), Mary Louise Pratt's influential study of Victorian travel writing ’ s dissemination of a colonial mind-set ; and Belated Travelers ( 1994 ), an analysis of colonial anxiety by Ali Behdad.

The first international travel writing conference, “ Snapshots from Abroad ”, organized by Donald Ross at the University of Minnesota in 1997, attracted over one hundred scholars and led to the foundation of the International Society for Travel Writing ( ISTW ).

Major directions in recent travel writing scholarship include: studies about the role of gender in travel and travel writing ( e. g. Women Travelers in Colonial India: The Power of the Female Gaze by Indira Ghose ); explorations of the political functions of travel ( e. g. Radicals on the Road: The Politics of English Travel Writing in the 1930s by Bernard Schweizer ); postcolonial perspectives on travel ( e. g. English Travel Writing: From Pilgrimages to Postcolonial Explorations ( 2000 ) by Barbara Korte ); and studies about the function of language in travel and travel writing ( e. g. Across the Lines: Travel, Language, and Translation by Michael Cronin ).

* New School Free Press, a student-run newspaper published by the journalism concentration of the Writing department, has grown from a DIY zine-style pamphlet to a professionally printed broadsheet in the years since its founding in 2002, when it was known as Inprint.

The Magic Writing Machine — Student Probes of the New Journalism, a collection edited and introduced by Everette E. Dennis, came up with six categories, labelled new nonfiction ( reportage ), alternative journalism (" modern muckraking "), advocacy journalism, underground journalism and precision journalism.

" Comprehensive " it is because it offers different curricula such as ESEP ( Engineering and Science Education Program ) on its 1st Year, Project BEST ( Breeding Excellence in Science and Technology ), Special Program in Journalism ( pilot school for journalism in CARAGA Region ), Special Program in the Arts ( with the specialization of Visual Arts, Creative Writing, Dancing, Music, Media Arts and Theater Arts ), Technical Vocational Courses, Special Program in Sports and Revised Basic Education Curriculum.

In 1983, The National Turf Writers Association ( horse-racing ) awarded Russell the Walter Haight Award for Excellence in Turf Writing, he received the Red Smith Award for his contributions to journalism in 1984.

* His script on the 50th anniversary of Charles Lindbergh's solo crossing of the Atlantic was reprinted in the first few editions of the journalism text Writing News for Broadcast, published by the Columbia University Press.