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item and letters
Other advantages are that one can easily find the first or last elements on the list ( most likely to be useful in the case of numerically sorted data ), or elements in a given range ( useful again in the case of numerical data, and also with alphabetically ordered data when one may be sure of only the first few letters of the sought item or items ).
The letters in parentheses following each item ( if any ) indicate the acronym of each source-used when quoting canon.
In the context of library science, a manuscript is defined as any hand-written item in the collections of a library or an archive ; for example, a library's collection of the letters or a diary that some historical personage wrote.
Frontonis opera inedita, cum epistolis item ineditis, Antonini Pii, Marci Aurelii, Lucii Veri et Appiani ( 1815 ; new ed., 1823, with more than 100 additional letters found in the Vatican library )
They are called thus from their Latin name litterae patentes long used by mediaeval and later scribes when such documents were written in Latin, expressed in the plural, in the ancient sense of a collection of letters of the alphabet arranged to be read rather than in the modern sense of the word as an " epistle " or item of correspondence ; thus no singular form exists.
The first two letters indicate registration ( usually " RR ") while the last 2 letters usually represent the country where the registered item was posted.
His letters caused a swell of donations by the patriotic inhabitants of the tiny island, and ensured that Newfoundland soldiers were never without the item for very long afterward.
* Ministry of Defence news item on new letters patent issued to the Defence Council
At the end, all attendees received the first TEAM OS / 2 T-shirt ( now a collectors ' item ), which included the first Team OS / 2 logo on the front and the distinctive IBM blue-stripe logo on the back-except with lower-case letters: " ibm / 2 " to represent the new IBM.

item and column
In his Galaxy Five-Star Shelf column of December, 1954, he states, "... I actually did not become an earnest devotee of the form until 1944, about a year before the Atomic Age actually opened .... The first item I remember reading that could be classified as science fiction was H. G. Wells ' Men Like Gods, back in 1924 when I was a college sophomore.
The column was circulated around the Internet, with an erroneous claim that it was a commencement address by Kurt Vonnegut, usually at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the misattribution became a news item when Vonnegut was contacted by reporters to comment.
When an item in the left column is related to an item across the top, a mark is placed in the intersecting cell.
A fractionating column or fractionation column is an essential item used in the distillation of liquid mixtures so as to separate the mixture into its component parts, or fractions, based on the differences in their volatilities.
This column was so popular that " Loose ends from Current Biology ", a compilation, was published in 1997 by Current Biology Ltd .,( ISBN 1 85922 325 7 ) and is now a collectors ' item.
When a labeled item is selected in Mac OS X column view, a colored dot after the name indicates the label.
Thus, each cell of the matrix corresponds to the strength of the association between the row item and the column item.
" That was the last sentence in her column item about Marina Oswald Porter's possible knowledge of the possible doctoring of an incriminating snapshot she had taken of Lee holding a rifle and socialist literature that Life featured on its cover in 1964.
Lane's side of the story is that a few weeks after the last comment Kilgallen published about the assassination ( an item in her September 3, 1965 Voice of Broadway column about Marina Oswald Porter and her incriminating photograph of Lee holding a rifle and socialist literature ), Kilgallen told him by phone that she planned to visit Dallas again.
If a line of table that corresponds to the country contains an X in the reason for control column, the export of a controlled item requires a license, unless an exception can be applied.
In a table representing first class items, one column of the table will typically contain a different integer assigned to each row ( effectively, to each item ) as a unique identifier: that is to say, unique for objects of this type ; objects of different types, represented in different tables, can coincidentally have the same identifier, but the coincidence is meaningless.
Each item becomes a field, and is displayed as a column in the table.
The term field is often used interchangeably with column, although many consider it more correct to use field ( or field value ) to refer specifically to the single item that exists at the intersection between one row and one column.
For example, if a user wanted to pull a value from Microsoft Excel which was contained in a spreadsheet called " Book1. xls " in the cell in the first row and first column, the application would be " Excel ", the topic " Book1. xls " and the item " r1c1 ".
The magazine's regular features for much of its run included a News section written by Jones, an item called The Pitt of Horror by Pitt, a book review section by Howe, an Opinion column by Newman and an end-of-magazine film analysis called The Fright of Your Life ' by Rigby '.
I interpreted that as meaning Armitage expected to see the item published in my column.

item and newspaper
* Grinder's Switch Gazzette: This skit featured Minnie Pearl as a newspaper worker who often insisted that her mute secretary, Miss Honeydew, take down an " important " news item which was always nonsense.
The word " spreadsheet " came from " spread " in its sense of a newspaper or magazine item ( text and / or graphics ) that covers two facing pages, extending across the center fold and treating the two pages as one large one.
Over the years, the Herald Sun has had a range of magazines, pins and memorabilia ( usually with an outside partner ) that could be obtained by either getting it out of the newspaper, or using a token from the newspaper to collect or purchase the item.
Festinger and his associates read an interesting item in their local newspaper headlined " Prophecy from planet clarion call to city: flee that flood.
The main example of a vending machine giving access to all merchandise after paying for one item is a newspaper vending machine ( also called vending box ) found mainly in the U. S. and Canada.
... brash struggling young actor whose main scheme to further his career was to hitch his wagon to a star, the first being James Dean, about whose friendship he was noisily boastful ... this made it easy for Parker to suggest that Nick be invited to join Elvis ' growing entourage of paid companions, and for Nick to accept ... following Adams ' hiring, there appeared a newspaper item stating that Nick and Parker were writing a book on Elvis together.
By the end of 1927, he was head of Paramount ’ s scenario department, and film author and historian Pauline Kael writes that " in January, 1928, there was a newspaper item reporting that he was in New York ' lining up a new set of newspaper feature writers and playwrights to bring to Hollywood ,' and that ' most of the newer writers on Paramount ’ s staff who contributed the most successful stories of the past year ' were selected by ' Mank.
In some cases, clues – most often of the Route Info type – have been provided by more unorthodox means, such as in an advertisement in a local newspaper or on some item related to the task just performed.
Le Journal de Montréal earned a reputation as a sports and news item oriented newspaper until the early 2000s.
A personal or personal ad is an item or notice traditionally in the newspaper, similar to a classified advertisement but in nature.
The use of printed paper, such as newspaper, could transfer ink onto the packaged item causing damage.
A publication must, in general, be committing a crime ( for example, reporters burglarizing someone's office to obtain information about a news item ); violating the law in publishing a particular article or issue ( printing obscene material, copyright infringement, libel, breaking a non-disclosure agreement ); directly threatening national security ; or causing or potentially causing an imminent emergency ( the " clear and present danger " standard ) to be ordered stopped or otherwise suppressed, and then usually only the particular offending article or articles in question will be banned, while the newspaper itself is allowed to continue operating and can continue publishing other articles.
According to a newspaper item of 1893, it was Horatio Bridge ’ s appreciation of Hawthorne ’ s early writings, and his faith in this man of genius, that, to use Hawthorne ’ s own words, " was responsible for my being an author ".
It was first introduced during the 1987 Pennant race, when the Twins won the American League Western division ( AL West ), by the Minneapolis Star Tribune as a promotional item for the newspaper during the pennant race.
The next item of postal stationery to be issued were newspaper wrappers on 1 April 1878.
* John Buchan's novel The Gap in the Curtain is similarly premised on a group of people being enabled to see, for a moment, an item in the Times newspaper from one year in the future.
The relationship ends after a gossip item about the budding romance appears in a newspaper.

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