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In a letter of 1946 Tolkien stated that he thought of Gandalf as an " Odinic wanderer ".
Nevertheless, Anouilh refused to comment on his political views, writing in a letter to the Belgian critic Hubert Gignoux in 1946, " I do not have a biography and I am very happy about it.
Synchrotron radiation was named after its discovery in a General Electric synchrotron accelerator built in 1946 and announced in May 1947 by Frank Elder, Anatole Gurewitsch, Robert Langmuir, and Herb Pollock in a letter entitled " Radiation from Electrons in a Synchrotron ".
* United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes Stuttgart speech, September 6, 1946 The speech was according to General Clay based on the letter Clay had sent Byrnes urging him to come to Stuttgart.
Earlier, in 1946, Alan Turing wrote a letter to Ashby suggesting that Ashby use Turing's Automatic Computing Engine ( ACE ) for his experiments instead of building a special machine.
Crawford learned about the letter in 1946 and accused Cobb of being a “ cheapskate ” who never helped his teammates.
In a letter to George Woodcock on 28 September 1946, Orwell noted that there were two or three books he was ashamed of and called A Clergyman's Daughter an even worse one than Keep the Aspidistra Flying and said " it was written simply as an exercise and I oughtn't to have published it, but I was desperate for money ".
After the Occupation and with the re-establishment of a free press, Edward Le Brocq ( 1877 – 1964 ) revived a weekly column in 1946 with a letter from Ph ' lip et Merrienne, supposedly a traditional old couple who would comment on the latest news or recall time past.
Returning to California, they submitted their outline on March 11, 1946, resulting in a letter of agreement that August.
Ehrenburg, who visited the US in 1946 and whose decidedly anti-American articles echoed the Soviet propaganda, and who was by then an international peace activist and the winner of the Stalin Prize ( 1947 ), was so afraid of being arrested that he wrote Stalin a letter asking to " end the uncertainty ".
On 5 June 1946, the Latvian SSR legislature passed a regulation on language reform that officially replaced the letter Ŗ with R in print.
Some ten years later, the Dewey Commission was cited in great detail, when in an open letter to the British press dated 25 February 1946, written by George Orwell and signed by Arthur Koestler, C. E. M. Joad, Frank Horrabin, George Padmore, Julian Symons, H. G. Wells, F. A. Ridley, C. A. Smith and John Baird, among others, it was suggested that the Nuremberg Trials then underway were an invaluable opportunity for establishing " historical truth and bearing upon the political integrity " of figures of international standing.
Crisman had previously written to Palmer and had a letter published in the June 1946 issue detailing his encounters with his outlandish ideas of ‘ deros ’ ( detrimental robots ) who ran an underground super-civilisation.
In a letter to his wife from 1946, Alexander wrote:
Inklings scholar John D. Rateliff suggests that the story could have been written some years later, in about 1946, pointing to a reference in a letter by Lewis's friend J. R. R.
In a letter to Stalin in February 1946, Kapitsa argued for the need for such a school, which he tentatively called the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, to better maintain and develop the country's defense potential.
The following is a summary of the key principles of the Phystech System, as outlined by Kapitsa in his 1946 letter arguing for the founding of MIPT:
Muench's pastoral letter One World In Charity was published in installments ( in the U. S. first in January 1946, and in occupied Germany one year later ).
The film was released in June 1946 to critical and popular acclaim but also a strong critique of the film from director Samuel Fuller, which he sent in the form of a letter to Milestone.
The letter states that he would “ be glad to say goodbye to it forever .” Elder Brown had surgery to sever his trigeminal nerve in 1945, but the attacks returned while he was teaching at Brigham Young University in 1946.
Brackett and Bradbury collaborated on one story, " Lorelei of the Red Mist ", which appeared in 1946 ; it was generally well-received, although one letter to the magazine complained that the story's treatment of sex, though mild by modern standards, was too explicit.
The readers were not always accepting ; one reader in a letter in 1949 supported " jettisoning the taboos ", but a letter writer in 1946 objected to " Lorelei of the Red Mist ", saying that he needed " a pint of Listerine to wash the dirty taste out of my mouth ".
In a letter to Kennedy dated July 27, 1946, Georgia Gov.

letter and Orwell
The Orwell Estate viewed the Apple commercial as a copyright infringement, and sent a cease-and-desist letter to Apple and its advertising agency.
Not wishing to commit himself until he'd seen the situation in situ, Orwell instead used his Independent Labour Party contacts to get a letter of introduction to John McNair in Barcelona.
At the same time, the communist Daily Worker was running an attack on The Road to Wigan Pier, misquoting Orwell as saying " the working classes smell "; a letter to Gollancz from Orwell threatening libel action brought a stop to this.
Despite returning several times, Orwell was characteristically acerbic about his time in Hayes, camouflaging it lightly as West Bletchley in Coming Up for Air, as Southbridge in A Clergyman's Daughter, and joking in a letter to author / friend Frank Jellinek:
* In a letter of 1938, George Orwell mentions an " anti-war pamphlet " that he had written earlier that year but could not get published.
He exchanged public correspondence with George Orwell defending pacifism in the open letter / poem " Letter to an American Visitor " under the pseudonym " Obadiah Hornbrooke.
Orwell chooses five specimen pieces of text, by Harold Laski (" five negatives in 53 words "), Lancelot Hogben ( mixed metaphors ), an essay on psychology in Politics (" simply meaningless "), a communist pamphlet (" an accumulation of stale phrases ") and a reader's letter in Tribune (" words and meaning have parted company ").
Orwell received a letter from the anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer as follows
In a letter to Brenda Salkeld, Orwell himself disowned it as ' tripe ', " except for chap 3, part 1, which I am pleased with ..." and prevented it being reprinted during his lifetime.
In a letter to Henry Miller a week after the book's publication in the US ( August 1936 ) Orwell described the book as " bollox ", though he added that he'd made some useful experiments with it.
George Orwell, in reply to a letter from Philip Rahv requesting names of possible contributors for PR, offered the following: Alex Comfort, Henry Treece, Alun Lewis, William Rogers, G. S. Fraser, Roy Fuller, Kathleen Raine, who all contributed to Poetry London.
Among those who went to Spain was Eric Blair ( better known as George Orwell ) and it is known that Fenner Brockway wrote a letter of recommendation for Blair to present to the ILP representatives in Barcelona.
In his letter to Warburg, Orwell wrote that he thought his essay " really too libellous to print ", adding that it should be printed " when the people most concerned are dead ".

letter and said
The War Department wrote Mr. Manuel a letter and said he was a hero.
After Gagarin became the Greatest Man in the World, for a nation that does not believe in the cult of personality or in careerism, Moreland wrote me a letter in which he said: `` I am not interested in how long a bee can live in a vacuum, or how far it can fly.
Councilman William D. Schaefer ( D., Fifth ) said in a letter to Mayor Grady that plowing and salting crews should be dispatched earlier in storms and should be kept on the job longer than they were last month.
Downtown and art theater managers and owners, contacted Friday night for comment on the COAHR request, said they had no knowledge of such a letter, and that it was not in the Friday mail.
St Pius X said in a letter to philosopher-friend and correspondent in the closing years of his life, ( Epist.
The brethren were pleased with the Emperor's letter, but Anthony did not pay any attention to it, and he said to them, " The books of God, the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, commands us every day, but we do not heed what they tell us, and we turn our backs on them.
The letter stated her objections to Muslims in France ritually slaughtering sheep by slitting their throats without anesthetizing them first but also said, in reference to Muslims, that she was " fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its habits ".
They said that among those signing the letter were officers who had no knowledge of their inclusion or who had refused to be included, and even one instance of a general's widow who signed her husband's name to the letter though he had died before the survey was published.
In chemistry, the letter H as symbol of enthalpy sometimes is said to be a Greek eta, but since enthalpy comes from ἐνθάλπος, which begins in a smooth breathing and epsilon, it is more likely a Latin H for ' heat '.
Hermann Weyl, a mathematician, said of this testament, " This letter, if judged by the novelty and profundity of ideas it contains, is perhaps the most substantial piece of writing in the whole literature of mankind.
" In a letter of complaint to ABC News, Singer said their piece used " prejudicial language, distorted facts, libelous insinuations, and anonymous smears.
In November 2006, Reilly's attorney presented to U. S. District Judge Susan Illston a letter from Hearst senior vice president James Asher to MediaNews President Jody Lodovic that said the two companies agreed to " offer national advertising and internet advertising sales for their San Francisco Bay area newspapers on a joint basis, and to consolidate the San Francisco Bay Area distribution networks of such newspapers ..." Illston, suggesting she had been misled by the companies when they said they had not been collaborating, issued a 14-page ruling forbidding Hearst and MediaNews from working together on national advertising sales or distribution.
Dr. Cardew, who, in a later letter to Davies Gilbert, said dryly: “ I could not discern the faculties by which he was afterwards so much distinguished .” Davy said himself: “ I consider it fortunate I was left much to myself as a child, and put upon no particular plan of study ... What I am I made myself .”
Thomas Jefferson once said in a letter to Isaac McPherson on August 13, 1813:
Fonda was one of more than 50 celebrities who signed an online petition letter by John Greyson in which Greyson said he would pull his film Covered from the Toronto International Film Festival in protest over the Festival's " inaugural City-to-City Spotlight on Tel Aviv ".
Voight's letter said in part:
In his letter to the organizers, he said: " I am profoundly convinced that every nationalism offers humanity only the greatest unhappiness ...
He is said to have printed several books including Speculum Humanae Salvationis with several assistants including the letter cutter Johann Fust, and it was this letter cutter Fust ( often spelled Faust ) who, when Laurens was nearing death, broke his promise of secrecy and stole his presses and type and took them to Mainz where he started his own printing company.
St. Ignatius of Antioch wrote shortly after Clement and in his letter from the city of Smyrna to the Romans he said he would not command them as Peter and Paul did.
In, attributed to the time of the Persian Empire in about 450 BC, it is said that Nehemiah, an official serving King Artaxerxes I of Persia, asked leave to travel to Judea, and the king granted leave and gave him a letter " to the governors beyond the river " requesting safe passage for him as he travelled through their lands.
William Howard Taft, a Unitarian, is noted to have said in a letter to a friend, " I am interested in the spread of Christian civilization, but to go into a dogmatic discussion of creed I will not do whether I am defeated or not.

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