`` Dear Miss Steichen: It is a very good letter you send me -- softens the intensity of this guerilla warfare I am carrying on up here.

On April 11th he wrote an open letter in The Advocate, making it known `` to the world that Jas. W. Robinson is by his own admission a base liar and a slanderer ''.

A letter of a few days later from Washington's aide to Morgan stated, `` His Excellency is highly pleased with your conduct upon this occasion ''.

In his letter mentioning Shakespeare on January 24, 1597/8, Sturley asked Quiney especially that `` theare might ( be ) bi Sir Ed. Grev. some meanes made to the Knightes of the Parliament for an ease and discharge of such taxes and subsedies wherewith our towne is like to be charged, and I assure u I am in great feare and doubte bi no meanes hable to paie.

In accordance with legislation passed at the last session of Congress, each Representative is authorized to deliver to the Post Office in bulk newsletters, speeches and other literature to be dropped in every letter box in his district.

But when you write to Congresswoman Church, bless her heart, your letter is answered fully and completely.

An illustration of this attitude is found in John A. McCone's letter to Dr. Thomas Lauritsen, reported in a note elsewhere in this issue of The New Republic.

The `` C '' club is composed of the men of the College who have won an official letter in Carleton athletics.

Follow pool-care instructions to the letter, and be sure that one person ( in the family or not ) is regularly responsible for each aspect of the job, with no chance for claiming, `` It wasn't my turn ''.

Still another approach to the changeable letter type of sign is a modular unit introduced by Merritt Products, Azusa, Calif..

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 ).

It is possible to identify the test procedure completely with a code consisting of a Roman Numeral, a letter, and an Arabic number.

In a similar vein, but writing from the opposite side, Thomas Taylor, a private in the 6th Alabama Volunteers, in a letter to his wife, stated: `` you know that my heart is with you but I never could have been satisfied to have staid at home when my country is invaded by a thievin foe, by a set of cowardly skunks whose motto is Booty.

Some pastors write a letter the same night the decision is reported by the visitors.

His letter to his daughter on the pains of growing up is surely as trenchant, forthright, and warmly understanding a piece of advice as ever a grown-up penned to a sensitive child, and with just the right tone of unpatronizing good humor.

James, he remarks in a letter to a friend, `` is attempting the impossible namely, to produce upon the reader, as a painting produces upon the gazer, a number of superimposed, simultaneous impressions.

But while she is able to tell her retarded family about the new world she has seen open before her, Ronnie has not been able to observe her progress, and instead of appearing at a family party to be looked over like a new bull, he sends Beatie a letter of dismissal.

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

It is similar to the Ancient Greek letter Alpha, from which it derives.

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 ).

Animalia is an alliterative alphabet book and contains twenty-six illustrations, one for each letter of the alphabet.

Based on letter appearances and names, it is believed to be based on Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Most mail these days consists of nothing that could truly be called a letter.

An abugida ( from Ge ‘ ez አቡጊዳ ’ äbugida ), also called an alphasyllabary, is a segmental writing system in which consonant – vowel sequences are written as a unit: each unit is based on a consonant letter, and vowel notation is secondary.

In a perfect anagram, every letter must be used, with exactly the same number of occurrences as in the anagrammed word or phrase ; any result that falls short is called an imperfect anagram.

It is called Hanat in a Babylonian letter, ( about 2200 BC ), a-na-at by the scribes of Tukulti-Ninurta ( 885 BC ), and An-at by the scribe of Assur-nasir-pal ( 879 B. C.

In the earliest reference to this land, a letter outlining the treaty violations of the Hittite vassal Madduwatta, it is called Ahhiya.

" In a letter to Nicholas Kratzer in 1524, Dürer wrote " because of our Christian faith we have to stand in scorn and danger, for we are reviled and called heretics.

The printed edition ( Presburg, 1838 ), prepared by M. L. Bislichis, contains: ( 1 ) Preface ; ( 2 ) a treatise of eighteen chapters on the incorporeality of God ; ( 3 ) correspondence ; ( 4 ) a treatise, called Sefer ha-Yarḥi, included also in letter 58 ; ( 5 ) a defense of The Guide and its author by Shem-Tob Palquera ( Grätz, Gesch.

Until 1945, Bulgarian orthography did not reveal this alternation and used the original Old Slavic Cyrillic letter yat (), which was commonly called двойно е ( dvoyno e ) at the time, to express the historical yat vowel or at least root vowels displaying the ya – e alternation.

Esther sends a letter instituting an annual commemoration of the Jewish people's redemption, in a holiday called Purim ( lots ).

He proceeded to write a letter, called Letter 126.

: The 2br enzymes, with the letter " r " denoting reduced binding to clavulanic acid and sulbactam, are also called inhibitor-resistant TEM-derivative enzymes ; nevertheless, they are commonly still susceptible to tazobactam, except where an amino acid replacement exists at position met69.

:" According to one explanation, the pre-Columbian tribes in Mexico called themselves Meshicas, and the Spaniards, employing the letter x ( which at that time represented a " sh " and " ch " sound ), spelled it Mexicas.

The punishment inflicted by the censors in the exercise of this branch of their duties was called nota (" mark, letter ") or notatio, or animadversio censoria (" censorial reproach ").

On March 18, VCheKa adopted a resolution, The Work of VCheKa on the All-Russian Scale, foreseeing the formation everywhere of Extraordinary Commissions after the same model, and sent a letter that called for the widespread establishment of the Cheka in combating counterrevolution, speculation, and sabotage.

Throughout these proceedings, Roman legate Hilary repeatedly called for the reading of Leo's Tome of Leo's letter to the council, but was ignored.

The original full version of the letter, called Return of the Several Ministers dated June 15, 1692, and had already been reprinted in the fall 1692 in the final two pages of Increase Mather's Cases of Conscience.

The digraph ' għ ' ( called għajn after the Arabic letter name ʻayn for غ ) is considered separate, and sometimes ordered after ' g ', whilst in other volumes it is placed between ' n ' and ' o ' ( the Latin letter ' o ' originally evolved from the shape of Phoenician ʻayin, which was traditionally collated after Phoenician nūn ).

Such a letter or ligature, with its diacritics, is called an " syllable ".

In a letter to Nikolaus von Amsdorf, Luther objected to Erasmus ’ Catechism and called Erasmus a " viper ," " liar ,"

Eth ( Ð, ð ; also spelled edh or eð ) is a letter used in Old English, Icelandic, Faroese ( in which it is called edd ), and Elfdalian.

" Hayek had hoped to receive a baronetcy, and after he was awarded the CH he sent a letter to his friends requesting that he be called the English version of Friedrich ( Frederick ) from now on.

The symbol was called " bayt ", " bet " or " beth " in various related languages, and became beta, the Greek letter, before it was used by the Romans.

Kamprad devotes two chapters to his time in Nysvenska Rörelsen in his book, Leading By Design: The IKEA Story and, in a 1994 letter to IKEA employees, called his affiliation with the organisation the " greatest mistake of my life.