Rosa figured that he would honor the written word best by sending the Ducks on an epic quest for the Library of Alexandria, where he

The word Antilles originated in the period before the European conquest of the New World — Antilia being one of those mysterious lands which figured on the medieval charts, sometimes as an archipelago, sometimes as continuous land of greater or lesser extent, its location fluctuating in mid-ocean between the Canary Islands and India.

The word is drawn from the figure prosopoeia in classical rhetoric, introduced by Quintilian, in which an absent or imagined person is figured forth — the " face created " as the Greek suggests — in words, as if present.

In a 2003 interview, Barrow recalled: " We figured that it would be amusing, at least to us, to have one word album titles, and we'd lop off the g's.

The study's author, University of London psychologist Alex Mesoudi, recommends reporters to follow the sort of guidelines the World Health Organization and others endorse for coverage of any suicide: Use extreme restraint in covering these deaths — keep the word " suicide " out of the headline, don't romanticize the death, and limit the number of stories.

The reader or hearer does not have to be told that loud music has a sound, and in a newspaper headline or other abbreviated prose can even be counted upon to infer that " burglary " is a proxy for " sound of the burglary " and that the music necessarily must have been loud to drown it out, unless the burglary was relatively quiet ( this is not a trivial issue, as it may affect the legal culpability of the person who played the music ); the word " loud " may imply that the music should have been played quietly if at all.

As a business consultant, Drucker disliked the term “ guru ,” though it was often applied to him ; “ I have been saying for many years ,” Drucker once remarked, “ that we are using the word ‘ guru ’ only because ‘ charlatan ’ is too long to fit into a headline .”

Starting out with two small events in 2003 and 2005 ( each with 150-200 attendees ), the festival grew dramatically and tickets for the 2007 event ( over 1000 ) sold out in advance, due in part to the heightened profile of its headline acts and in part growing word of mouth.

As a metaphor, the word " imprimatur " is used loosely of any form of approval or endorsement, especially by an official body or a person of importance, as in the newspaper headline, " Protection of sources now has courts ' imprimatur ", but also much more vaguely as in " Children, the final imprimatur to family life, are being borrowed, adopted, created by artificial insemination.

The headline of the article was " Full Plaintiff " ( полный истец ) which has little meaning, but rhymes with a Russian swear word, meaning " complete disaster " ( полный пиздец ).

# The Logo must never be used to represent the word " Stevens " or " Stevens Institute of Technology " in text, including in a headline, product-name logotype, or body copy.

How lightly her `` eventshah-leh '' passed into the crannies where I was storing dialect material for some vaguely dreamed opus, and how the word would echo.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

To you, for instance, the word innocence, in this connotation, probably retained its Biblical, or should I say technical sense, and therefore I suppose I must make myself quite clear by saying that I lost -- or rather handed over -- what you would have considered to be my innocence two weeks before I was legally entitled, and in fact by oath required, to hand it over along with what other goods and bads I had.

Before being daughter, wife, or mother, before being cultured ( a word now bereft both socially and politically of the sheen you children of frontiersmen bestowed on it ), before being sorry for the poor, progressive about public health, and prettily if somewhat imprecisely humanitarian, indeed first and foremost, you were a lady.

The more Adoniram looked at the Greek word for baptism, the more unhappy he became over its true meaning.

Mr. Hearst's telegraphic code word for Victor Watson was `` fatboy ''.

One finds it difficult to pass censure on the lonely figure who waited for days for a saving word from his zealously served idol, W.R. Hearst.

That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.

There's a man who never goes by the ordinary road but still arrives at his goal, who gratuitously gets himself into difficulty in order to get out of it with eclat, in a word a man who creates monsters for himself in order to appear a Hercules in destroying them ''.

If Robinson was a liar and a slanderer, he was also a very canny gentleman, for nothing that Pike could do would pry so much as a single word out of him.

The word `` tragedy '' encloses for us in a single span both the Greek and the Elizabethan example.

It may be thought unfortunate that he was called on entirely by accident to perform, if again we may trust the opening of the oratio, for it marks the beginning for us of his use of his peculiar form of witty word play that even in this Latin banter has in it the unmistakable element of viciousness and an almost sadistic delight in verbally tormenting an adversary.

Sam Rayburn took unnumbered secrets with him to the grave, for he was never loquacious, and his word, once given, was not subject to retraction.

The word also made him feel hate, sincere hate, for those so labeled.

She had begun to turn back toward the house, but his look caught her and she stood still, waiting there for what his expression indicated would be a serious word of farewell.

After that they had sat for five minutes without saying a word.

Here is a word of advice when you go shopping for your pansy seeds.

Any alteration of one of these factors is distortion, although we generally use that word only for effects so pronounced that they can be stated quantitatively on the basis of standard tests.

You'll never hear `` sayonara '', the Japanese word for goodbye, from your guests when you give a hibachi party.

`` Be careful of the word ' gay ', for it, too, has undergone a change.

The latter is useful for modifying information about some or all forms of a word, hence reducing the work required to improve dictionary contents.

Applying the techniques developed at Harvard for generating a paradigm from a representative form and its classification, we can add all forms of a word to the dictionary at once.

Since the Apostolic Age, the use of the definite article before the word Christ and its development into a proper name signifies its identification with Jesus as the promised Jewish messiah.

The use of the definite article before the word " Christ " and its gradual development into a proper name show the Christians identified the bearer with the promised Messiah of the Jews who fulfilled all the Messianic predictions in a fuller and a higher sense than had been given them by the Rabbis.

West of the red line the definite article goes before the word as in English or German ; east of the line it takes the form of a suffix.

Often the word takes the definite article and is capitalized — " the Divinity " — as though it were a proper name or definitive honorific.

:: In a Hypertext database, any word or a piece of text representing an object, e. g., another piece of text, an article, a picture, or a film, can be linked to that object.

Jones became the first linguist in the western world to use the term phoneme in its current sense, employing the word in his article The phonetic structure of the Sechuana Language.

The name El Cid () comes from the article el ( which means " the " in both Spanish and Arabic ), and the dialectal Arabic word سيد sîdi or sayyid, which means " Lord " or " The Master ".

Note: In the following discussion, only one or two common pronunciations of American and British English varieties are used in this article for each word cited.

The word " gonzo " is believed to be first used in 1970 to describe an article by Hunter S. Thompson, who later popularized the style.

" He found out that the malicious connotations were present at MIT in 1963 already ( quoting The Tech, a MIT Student Magazine ) and then referred to unauthorized users of the telephone network, The Newsweek article appears to be the first use of the word hacker by the mainstream media in the pejorative sense.

See the article on Eskimo for more information on this word.

( The Arabic name, with the definite article, is the source of the word ' lute '.

Instead, she argued that " in most cases ", converts first become interested in the movement through " word of mouth, a discussion between friends, a lecture, a book, an article or a Web site.

Darwin challenged the validity of Galton's experiment, giving his reasons in an article published in ' Nature ' where he wrote: " Now, in the chapter on Pangenesis in my Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, I have not said one word about the blood, or about any fluid proper to any circulating system.

But in an article published on February 25 of the same year in a German newspaper called the Vossische Zeitung, Johann von Maedler, a Berlin astronomer, had used the word photography already.

See the " References " section on the LISP article — the 36-bit word size of the PDP-6 and PDP-10 was influenced by the programming convenience of having 2 LISP pointers, each 18 bits, in one word.

The word " panarchy " was invented and the concept proposed by a Belgian political economist, Paul Émile de Puydt in an article called " Panarchy " published in 1860.

The author of this article called the device a " phonographe ", but Cros himself favored the word " paleophone ", sometimes rendered in French as " voix du passé " ( voice of the past ) but more literally meaning " ancient sound ", which accorded well with his vision of his invention's potential for creating an archive of sound recordings that would be available to listeners in the distant future.

On Sunday, December 4, 1955, plans for the Montgomery Bus Boycott were announced at black churches in the area, and a front-page article in The Montgomery Advertiser helped spread the word.

This article focuses on the more restricted use of the word.

The contemporary Italian word is zucchero, whereas the Spanish and Portuguese words, azúcar and açúcar respectively, have kept a trace of the Arabic definite article.

In 1924, in the Adelaide Sun an article stated " The word ' stole ' may sound a bit far-fetched but by the time we have told the story of the heart-broken Aboriginal mother we are sure the word will not be considered out of place.

Not until 1982 was the word terraforming used in the title of a published journal article.