Made in lengths from 3 to 10 ft., the bars are shaped in cross section to provide a secure fit for the tapered slots molded in back of the letters.

* Giuseppe Barzilai goes back for explanation to the first verse of the prayer attributed to Rabbi Nehunya ben HaKanah, the literal rendering of which is “ O, with thy mighty right hand deliver the unhappy ,” forming from the initial and final letters of the words the word Abrakd ( pronounced Abrakad ), with the meaning “ the host of the winged ones ,” i. e., angels.

On the back side the letters CH standing for ( Confoederatio Helvetica ) are engraved next to a Swiss cross.

He played around with it, came back with a bunch of designs that had the circle and slightly 3-D looking letters and he had ones with different patterns behind it.

:* Turkish uses a G with a breve ( Ğ ), two letters with an umlaut ( Ö and Ü, representing two rounded front vowels ), two letters with a cedilla ( Ç and Ş, representing the affricate and the fricative ), and also possesses a dotted capital İ ( and a dotless lowercase ı representing a high unrounded back vowel ).

The letters of the captain and alternate captains were moved to the player's right shoulder ; Detroit is the only team in the league that made this change ( the change was necessitated by the stitching of the sweater ), although the 2008 NHL All Star jerseys featured this as well, and the Captain and Alternate Captain's letters have switched back to the left shoulder as of the 2011 – 12 NHL Season.

His expertise was limited to digits ; when a switch from digits to letters of the alphabet was made he exhibited no transfer — his memory span dropped back to about six consonants.

Nor was he always critical about the material that he reproduces ; he includes in the Ecclesiastical History letters supplied to him by a Syriac source purporting to be written back and forth between King Abgar and Jesus.

Zuylestein was sent in part to see how successful, or amenable, James's packed Parliament would be, and have discussions with English statesmen, with Zuylestein sending back to William letters from them.

He sometimes dated his letters 200 years before the current date, which would have put the writing back in U. S. colonial times, before the American Revolution ( a war which offended his Anglophilia ).

After the war, his friend Käte Steinitz started to send letters back to Schwitters from the United States, where she had emigrated in 1936.

Boniface had Mellitus take two papal letters back to England, one to Æthelbert and his people, and another to Laurence, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Luis forces Julia to write back, fearing that if Julia continues to ignore Emily's letters, Emily will assume something terrible has befallen her sister and might send the authorities to check on her welfare.

Gregory sent Boniface back to Bavaria with three letters ; one commanded the bishops and higher ecclesiastical officers to provide Boniface with as much help as they could.

In this approximately 800-word document about methods of franking letters he states, " Therefore, of Mr Hill ’ s plan of a uniform rate of postage … I conceive that the most simple and economical mode … would be by Slips … in the hope that Mr Hill ’ s plan may soon be carried into operation I would suggest that sheets of Stamped Slips should be prepared … then be rubbed over on the back with a strong solution of gum …".

In 1916, Lardner published his first successful book, You Know Me Al, an epistolary novel written in the form of letters by " Jack Keefe ", a bush-league baseball player, to a friend back home.

* November 19 – The Hudson's Bay Company surrenders its claim to Rupert's Land in Canada under its letters patent back to the British Crown.

In online forums and informal game credits pages Minter usually signs as " Yak ", which is, in his own words " a pseudonym chosen a long time ago, back in the days when hi-score tables on coin-op machines only held three letters, and I settled on Yak because the yak is a scruffy hairy beast-a lot like me ;-).

In some texts these symbols are simply shown in bold type: blackboard bold in fact originated from the attempt to write bold letters on blackboards in a way that clearly differentiated them from non-bold letters, and then made its way back in print form as a separate style from ordinary bold, possibly starting with the original 1965 edition of Gunning and Rossi's textbook on complex analysis.

His eyesight was so excellent that he could write letters 1 millimeter in size without using a magnifying glass, and this skill probably prevented him from being commissioned back into the army.

Darius petitioned to Alexander through letters several times to get his family back, but Alexander refused to do so unless Darius would acknowledge him as the new emperor of Persia.

The earliest reference to Vulcan names following a set pattern dates back to a May 3, 1966 memo from TOS producer Robert H. Justman to Gene Roddenberry ( later reprinted in the book The Making of Star Trek ) in which Justman recommended that all Vulcan names begin with " SP " and end with " K ", and have exactly five letters.

Katherine Douglas King '' The invitation was accepted and other letters followed, in which she spoke of her concern for his health and her delight in seeing him so much at home among the crippled children she served.

The letters home, the talks later given by returning members of the Peace Corps, the influence on the lives of those who spend two or three years in hard work abroad -- all this may combine to provide a substantial popular base for responsible American policies toward the world.

After he had been away from home about a year he wrote: `` ( dear Wife ) if I did not write and receive letters from you I believe that I would forgit that I was married.

Their 1901 – 1907 jerseys, both home and road, simply read " Boston ", except for 1902 when they sported large letters " B " and " A " denoting " Boston " and " American.

After two FBI agents showed up at his home, he understood that " their interest lay not in the letters but in me.

Beatty's letters home made no complaint about the poor living conditions in Britannia, and generally he was extrovert, even aggressive, and resented discipline.

Of the four fast bowlers in the tour party, Gubby Allen was a voice of dissent in the English camp, refusing to bowl short on the leg side, and writing several letters home to England critical of Jardine, although he did not express this in public in Australia.

The uniforms ' lettering had the same style of letters as the new cap logo with heavily stylized " BREWERS " lettering on the home jerseys and " MILWAUKEE " on the road grays.

Paper was a scarce commodity in the early American west, and women would save letters from home, newspaper clippings, and catalogs to use as patterns.

The early Blickensderfer's " Ideal " keyboard was also non-QWERTY, instead having the sequence " DHIATENSOR " in the home row, these 10 letters being capable of composing 70 % of the words in the English language.

Private Keefe's World War I letters home to his friend Al were collected in Treat ' Em Rough.

He was imbued with the culture of his time and of his country, which was then the only true home of Latin letters and learning.

The user accesses the nearby Ctrl key and then a letter or combination of letters, thus keeping his hands on or close to the typing home row instead of moving them away from it to reach for a specialty key or a mouse.

* Most recursive acronyms are recursive on the first letter, which is therefore an arbitrary choice, often selected for reasons of humour, ease of pronunciation, or consistency with an earlier acronym that used the same letters for different words, such as PHP: PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, which was originally " Personal home page ".

This was followed by Letters from Iwo Jima, which dealt with the tactics of the Japanese soldiers on the island and the letters they wrote home to family members.

His good fortune and letters home lured many of his villagers to jobs in Schreiber.

In letters home, he complained of the treatment of the native Indians by the British officials: " Because a man has a black face and a different religion from our own, there is no reason why he should be treated as a brute.

After being demobbed ( he had served as a sergeant in the Army Education Corps and spent much of his national service in Germany writing letters home for soldiers ), he went to work as an insurance clerk in the claims and accidents department of the Commercial Union Insurance Company for six years.

The hospital had been casually known by this name since the time of the Civil War, when — in their letters home to loved ones — patients of army hospitals temporarily located on the grounds were reluctant to refer to the institution by its full title.

Later, Kate became quite eccentric, vandalizing Hart's home, writing threatening letters and setting fires backstage during rehearsals for Jubilee.

So that the young Louis could send letters back home, Simon-René provided him with an alphabet fashioned from bits of thick leather.

Paine has one last card up his sleeve: he brings in bins of letters and telegrams from Smith's home state, purportedly from average people demanding his expulsion.

After they force Smitty to show them his letters from home it turns out that Smitty is an alcoholic who has run away from his family.

A minimalist view is that he spent his entire life in the cities of his native Asia Minor and of northern Syria, in particular his home town of Tyana, Ephesus, Aegae, and Antioch, though the letters suggest wider travels, and there seems no reason to deny that, like many wandering philosophers, he at least visited Rome.