Shorthand Sentence Examples

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  • It is a shorthand formula of registration.

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  • He studied at Phillips Andover Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, and entered Yale, but left in his junior year (1857) to accept a position as a teacher of shorthand in the St Louis, Missouri, public schools.

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  • The distinction between algebraical and arithmetical reasoning then lies mainly in the fact that the former is in a more condensed form than the latter; an unknown quantity being represented by a special symbol, and other symbols being used as a kind of shorthand for verbal expressions.

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  • This man translated to him out of Chaldee into Hebrew, while Jerome dictated to a shorthand writer his own translation into Latin.

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  • My work skills also helped as I could already do shorthand and typing.

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  • It was a form of ' visual shorthand ' which suggested abstract concepts as well particular stories.

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  • Their point is to stretch Hume's phenomenalism so as to embrace all science, by contending that mechanism is not at the bottom of phenomena, but is only the conceptual shorthand by aid of which men of 'science can briefly describe phenomena, and that all science is description and not explanation.

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  • He took a very active part in the measures for the establishment of the normal school (which existed only during the first four months of the year 1795), and of the school for public works, .afterwards the polytechnic school, and was at each of them professor for descriptive geometry; his methods in that science were first published in the form in which the shorthand writers took down his lessons given at the normal school in 1795, and .again in 1798-1799.

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  • She bristles at her mother 's suggestion that she learn shorthand; she " hated the idea of serving men in any way ".

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  • There may also be mentioned the Royal College of Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, with museum; the Royal Colleges of Organists, and of Veterinary Surgeons, the College of Preceptors, the Jews' College, and the Metropolitan School of Shorthand.

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  • According to Dio Cassius, Maecenas was the inventor of a system of shorthand.

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  • Curnock having unravelled the difficult cipher and shorthand in which Wesley's early diaries were kept.

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  • These and other cases in which we are led to discern very primitive witness behind Acts, do not indeed give to such witness the value of shorthand notes or even of abstracts based thereon.

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  • He invented a system of shorthand (2nd ed., with a copy of verses by Joseph Priestley) .

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  • Parliamentary diarists like DEwes, Burton and Walter Yonge, only a fragment of whose shorthand notes in the British Museum has been published (Camden Society), elucidate the bare official statements; and from 1660 the series of parliamentary debates is fairly complete, though not so full or authoritative as it becomes with Hansard in the 19th century.

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  • This is obviously expected to be a reasonably common thing to do, as there's a special shorthand syntax for it.

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  • For me, the shorthand character sketches, often using patois or speech rhythms, are the most immediate things in the book.

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  • The term became shorthand for rebellious or simply boisterous youth.

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  • To use the obvious shorthand, the Blue Train is the Orient Express of southern Africa.

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  • This macro provides a convenient shorthand for the most common way to use these macros.

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  • General PA duties as you would expect but must have shorthand.

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  • To my mind it can be a useful descriptive shorthand.

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  • You might also use your own shorthand to help you record.

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  • One may also use the border-top, border-width, or border shorthand properties.

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  • The delay varies from one to three seconds for verbatim phonetic machine shorthand, to around five seconds for edited input using qwerty.

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  • So he hired a stenographer - the star pupil from Russia's first school of shorthand dictation.

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  • My parents wanted me to be a shorthand typist.

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  • Transcripts 14.9 The various shorthand writers provide a number of different transcript services.

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  • This is my shorthand for a range of issues which he deals with in several passages.

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  • A unique number will be given by the official shorthand writers to each approved judgment issued out of these courts.

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  • This is obviously expected to be a reasonably common thing to do, as there 's a special shorthand syntax for it.

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  • From 1827 to 1828 he was a law office clerk, and then worked as a shorthand reporter at Doctor 's Commons.

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  • So he hired a stenographer - the star pupil from Russia 's first school of shorthand dictation.

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  • Depending upon the work you'll do with your calculator, you won't want large numbers broken up into scientific shorthand.

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  • Often they have adapted the teen lingo, are aware of text message shorthand, and are ready to engage you in a conversation.

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  • This site states that it has the largest list of text message shorthand available on the web.

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  • When looking to learn musical tunes from guitar sheet music, it helps to be familiar with some of the shorthand notation that comes with the territory.

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  • The language in each field will be specific to that field, offering a kind of shorthand to avoid long explanations of things that anyone reading the article already would know.

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  • Whether you believe that fairy tales are just morality plays for children, or that they have grown from basic cultural archetypes and our fundamental beliefs, they speak in a kind of literary shorthand.

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  • They write shorthand, but speak no English; they have a smattering of higher mathematics, yet are ignorant of book-keeping.

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  • His Sunday sermons were taken down in shorthand, corrected by him on Monday, and sold by his publishers, Messrs Passmore & Alabaster, literally by tons.

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  • Ordinary algebra developed very gradually as a kind of shorthand, devised to abbreviate the discussion of arithmetical problems and the statement of arithmetical facts.

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  • These, now almost sixty in number (excluding seals), are all in a pictographic character which employed symbols somewhat elaborately depicted in relief, but reduced to conventional and " shorthand " representations in the incised texts.

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  • He devoted attention to questions of Latin orthography, and is said to have been the first to introduce shorthand writing in Latin.

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  • She bristles at her mother's suggestion that she learn shorthand; she " hated the idea of serving men in any way " .

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