(1) The former senior KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin, who has died from pneumonia aged 81, will be best remembered for his extraordinary achievement in noting down the contents of top-secret Soviet foreign intelligence files and, at great personal risk, smuggling them out of the secret police headquarters on almost every working day for 12 years.
(2) It was Tim, an archivist from Warners whom I had been pestering for years about trying to track down some long-lost film footage.
(3) The issue came up after an archivist discovered documents showing that Hitler and the president who appointed him, Paul von Hindenburg, had been given honorary citizenship of Dietramszell.
(4) Murray Melvin, a member of Littlewood's Theatre Workshop company, now the theatre's honorary archivist, recalled the original cast's extraordinary experience.
(5) We can do four or five hundred a day,” says one of the archivists, Lucas Behmer.
(6) A team of specialist conservation staff from Historic Scotland is now working with the school's own archivists to retrieve and conserve vulnerable materials.
(7) As theatre director emeritus and honorary archivist of the Victoria theatre collection at Staffordshire University, he continued his involvement with the theatre he loved.
(8) It’s a great surprise for the new year,” said archivist Niurbus Ferrer.
(9) Directed by Franny Armstrong (a documentary film-maker and outrider for the Guardian's 10:10 campaign), The Age of Stupid cast Pete Postlethwaite as a mournful archivist in 2055, looking at footage from 2008 of flash floods and rampant air travel and wondering where it all went wrong.
(10) What I believe could [provide] context here is that back in the early 20th century there was a small student group that adopted the name Ku Klux Klan,” said archivist William Maher at the University of Illinois, who was listed in the published phone numbers, told the Guardian.
(11) A team of archivists is busy cleaning, photographing and indexing crates full of 33, 45 and 78 RPMs.
(12) The American diplomatic cables show a long and increasingly futile effort on behalf of the embassy to mediate between the Vatican archivists and outside historians, bedevilled by mutual mistrust.
(13) Andrei Tarkovsky: it's time to immerse yourself in the work of a true auteur Read more Many of the images which are particularly technically flawed are expected to be among the most coveted when the collection is sold by his son Andrey, who is also his archivist, at Bonhams auction house in October.
(14) According to Lionel Joseph, 90, who was the CTC's archivist until he turned 83, the name change, which came about in 1883, was prompted by protests from those who favoured three wheels over two.
(15) Pete Postlethwaite, who stars in the film as an archivist in 2050 looking back at the opportunities mankind had to stop climate change, will arrive in a solar-powered car.
(16) After working for King, Maude and Leonard Ballou moved on to what is now Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina, where Leonard Ballou was an archivist.
(17) Specialist archivists from the Glasgow School of Art have begun the operation to conserve items damaged by the fire that ripped through the Charles Rennie Mackintosh building in the city centre on Friday.
(18) Blake, the assiduous archivist, photographed them – an image now in the Cardiff show, alongside the train ticket he bought for his journey there – and regarded their meeting as a good omen.
(19) Volunteer Archivist and Alumni Events Organiser City University London.
(20) In recent years, publishers, authors, and archivists have become aware of the destructive effects of acid decay on medical journals.
Scribe
Definition:
(n.) One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an offical or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.
(n.) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
(v. t.) To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
(v. t.) To cut (anything) in such a way as to fit closely to a somewhat irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a molding, or the like; -- so called because the workman marks, or scribe, with the compasses the line that he afterwards cuts.
(v. t.) To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
(v. i.) To make a mark.
Example Sentences:
(1) The scribes wrote his words on their tablets of metal and light, to be saved for the ages.
(2) But the man whose calligraphy we ponder - a jobbing scribe, probably - was not the author.
(3) The resulting outline scribed from the orifices tended to be centered mesiodistally on the crown of each group and did not extend to the marginal ridges.
(4) A case of life threatening lead poisoning was diagnosed clinically in a Jewish scribe and verified by appropriate laboratory studies.
(5) He worked mainly as a scribe and copyist, drafting correspondence, copying letters written by others and researching a variety of issues.
(6) When I was translating his novel Broken Glass – a novel with no full stops, no sentences, in which a variety of characters relate their stories to a scribe in a downtown bar – I kept thinking of the African voices I heard around me in London.
(7) It's back to the battle between scribes and movable type.
(8) Following any assessment, results are literally shouted across the fence to a scribe who copies them on to a duplicate record sheet in conditions of safety.
(9) I would expect that an organisation so largely composed of journalists might more greatly value the contributions of fellow scribes.
(10) The special ink used by the scribe was found to contain lead in appreciable amounts.
(11) Eleven more asymptomatic subjects, both scribes and manufacturers of the ink, were studied and five were found to have subclinical lead overload.
(12) For scribes copied and recopied books in this city that loved leaning, creating a legacy of works transcribed in the 18th and 19th centuries as well as earlier.
(13) The scribes came to Him and they asked him for His words.
(14) Robert Newton Oldham • "Ignore the groans of vested interests" blusters David Cameron's ex-scribe Ian Birrell.
(15) So perhaps this is as good a moment as any to take my leave, and it doesn't make me feel any younger to find myself described in one gossip column as a "scribe" who is laying down his "quill".
(16) Takrit scribes in Cairo – through which the miles-long camel caravan of the king of the vast Mali Empire passed – said his wealth and generosity was unlike any they had seen.
(17) The length coincides approximately with the length of the 'writing tablet' (jotter) mentioned in 'Epidemics' VI 8.7 and with the ancient Greek standard unit of measure applied for the payment of scribes, namely 100 epic verses.
(18) Molecular sieve chromatography and sucrose density gradient ultracentrifugation demonstrated that the chemotactic factor was a relatively low molecular weight product (15,000-30,000) and as such different from previously scribed C' system-derived chemotactic factors.
(19) It’s not hard to see what inspired Viking scribes: the island has pockets filled with silences that feel intensely charged.
(20) The historian John Man puts the Gutenberg revolution like this : "Suddenly, in a historical eye-blink, scribes were redundant.