When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:

An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.

the `` sober opinion '' of his letter to Noyes, written when Hardy was eighty years old, is essentially that of his first `` philosophical '' notebook entry, made when he was twenty-five: `` The world does not despise us: it only neglects us '' ( Early Life, p. 63 ).

A ( named a, plural aes ) is the first letter and vowel in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

The earliest certain ancestor of " A " is aleph ( also called ' aleph ), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet ( which, by consisting entirely of consonants, is an abjad rather than a true alphabet ).

Alpha ( uppercase Α, lowercase α ; Álpha ) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet.

Plutarch, in Moralia, presents a discussion on why the letter alpha stands first in the alphabet.

If the original word was capitalised, then the first letter of its abbreviation should retain the capital, for example Lev.

* 1527 – The first known letter from North America is sent by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.

The first nine probably date from the 3rd century BC, they are usually included among the Cynic epistles, and reflect how the Cynic philosophers viewed him as prefiguring many of their ideas ; the tenth letter is quoted by Diogenes Laertius, it is addressed to Croesus, the proverbially rich king of Lydia, it too is fictitious:

The first significant reference to the influence of Aelian in the 16th century is a letter to Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange from his cousin William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg on December 8, 1594.

The first level of the code indicates the anatomical main group and consists of one letter.

* A ( Cyrillic ), the first letter of the Early Cyrillic alphabet

Athanasius ' letters include one " Letter Concerning the Decrees of the Council of Nicaea " ( De Decretis ), which is an account of the proceedings of that council, and another letter in the year 367 which was the first known listing of the New Testament including all those books now accepted everywhere as the New Testament.

St Cyril of Alexandria, 370-444, In the first letter says: " Athanasius is one who can be trusted: he would not say anything that is not in accord with sacred scripture.

The Beowulf manuscript itself is mentioned in name for the first time in a letter in 1700 between George Hickes, Wanley ’ s assistant, and Wanley.

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 ".

When writing the scientific name of an organism, it is proper to capitalize the first letter in the genus and put all of the specific epithet in lowercase.

The first four poems ( chapters ) are acrostics, like some of the Psalms ( 25, 34, 37, 119 ), i. e., each verse begins with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet taken in order.

The theory was first published in April 1957 in the letter, " Microscopic theory of superconductivity ".

The idea of a body so massive that even light could not escape was first put forward by geologist John Michell in a letter written to Henry Cavendish in 1783 of the Royal Society:

The first recorded use of the term is in a 1964 letter by Anne Ewing to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Tomislav was the first ruler of Croatia who was styled a king in a letter from the Pope John X, dating kingdom of Croatia to year 925.

A woman doctor wrote to a friend in June 1933 that she had not yet become a cannibal, but was “ not sure that I shall not be one by the time my letter reaches you .” The good people died first.

The first letter of a chemical symbol is always capitalized, as in the preceding examples, and the subsequent letters, if any, are always lower case ( small letters ).

The Summary Report, which was prepared for this Conference, indicates, first, that actual or pending school desegregation is increasing ; ;

The Chronicle records several battles of Ceawlin's between the years 556 and 592, including the first record of a battle between different groups of Anglo-Saxons, and indicates that under Ceawlin Wessex acquired significant territory, some of which was later to be lost to other Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

On the third line a capital Y indicates a work about the author or book represented by the first two lines, and a capital E ( for English — other letters are used for other languages ) indicates a translation into English.

The first digit of the number indicates the dive group as defined above.

The first digit indicates that it is a twisting dive.

The first digit indicates if a card can be used internationally or is valid for domestic use only.

As a result, Roman Numeral I indicates the first year of the republic, that is, the year before the calendar actually came into use.

Archaeology indicates considerable political instability in Scotland during the first half of the 2nd century, and the shifting frontier at this time should be seen in this context.

The letter is followed by a three-digit number ; the first digit indicates the NOAA " class " ( i. e., size ) of the vessel, which NOAA assigns based on the ship's gross tonnage and horsepower, while the next two digits combine with the first digit to create a unique three-digit identifying number for the ship.

The 2010 QDR indicates a change in perspective and it is unclear how the policy of the first decade of the 21st century would be sustained through the anticipated fiscal environment of the second.

Setzer states that the passage indicates that Josephus, a Jewish historian writing towards the end of the first century, could use a neutral tone towards Christians, with some tones of sympathy, implying that they may be worthy of Roman protection.

The genetic pattern indicates Indigenous Americans experienced two very distinctive genetic episodes ; first with the initial-peopling of the Americas, and secondly with European colonization of the Americas.

The first occurrence in English of " ontology " as recorded by the OED ( Oxford English Dictionary, second edition, 1989 ) appears in Nathaniel Bailey's dictionary of 1721, which defines ontology as ' an Account of being in the Abstract ' - though, of course, such an entry indicates the term was already in use at the time.

Moreover, says Strabo, none of the other authors mention Thule, a fact which he uses to discredit Pytheas, but which to moderns indicates Pytheas was the first explorer to arrive there and tell of it.

" Furthermore, the preface indicates that the book was first printed in 1602.

This first North American record is almost identical to European specimens and indicates the immigration of this species from Asia.

Stories with the device used by the Second Doctor before the screwdriver's first on-screen appearance are plausible as the Doctor in that story indicates that the machine " never fails ", implying its successful use before that adventure.

A longstanding Jewish position is that unbroken seventh-day shabbat originated among the Jewish people, as their first and most sacred institution, whether this Mosaic tradition preserves an origin in special creation, or whether it indicates some obscure later naturalistic origin.

Here, the first line ( Shebang ) indicates which interpreter should be used to execute the rest of the script, and the second line makes a listing with options for file format indicators, columns, all files ( none omitted ), and a size in blocks.

This is one of Sam Loyd's most famous puzzles, first printed in the New York Journal and Advertiser, April 24, 1898 ( as far as available evidence indicates ).

The first general council at Constantinople in 381 in canon VII and the third general council at Constantinople in 680 in canon XCV declared the baptism of Sabellius to be invalid, which indicates that Sabellianism was still extant.