While reading the Woman's Exponent a few weeks ago, I found great-grandmother Anne Harvey listed in the presidency of a Relief Society in Heber City in 1873 (1 Jan. 1873, 114). However, despite these involved ancestors, the spirit of Relief Society, as Goethe said of all good things, ...
Like many people, I have a tendency to try to polish everything until it's perfect. As someone who teaches marketing, I have an inbuilt fear that everyone is looking at my own marketing and picking up on every flaw and imperfection and judging me on it. Of course, it's not true for...
How do you say cute in Yiddish? Pempik‒ something small, unimportant and possibly cute. Yiddish uses this word for brat. One gets a feeling the Yiddish word almost speaks what it means – one could almost gather it from the way it sounds. Etymology: the word goes back to Polish pę...
How do you use the word exacerbate? Exacerbate sentence example He wanted desperately to put his arms around her but knew he'd just exacerbate the situation. ... He was largely responsible for the Scandinavian Seven Years' War (1562-70), which did so much to exacerbate the relations between...
6.DO NOT REPEAT NUMBERS.Spelling out numbers and then repeating them as digits within parentheses is redundant and unnecessary. Use this basic rule: less than 10 or beginning a sentence, spell it out; more than 10, use digits. Do NOT do both!
Striking the balance between old-fashioned names and modern monikers that still capture the melodic flow of the ornamental names of days gone by can be tricky. Amalina is a name that sounds like it could have been given to your grandmother but is, in fact, hardly ever used, never popping ...
Book writing software can help you streamline the writing process. It cuts down your writing time with helpful tools like spell checkers, auto-save, grammar tools, plagiarism checkers, and ways to organize your chapters.Some book writing software has built-in productivity features that help you ...
She was a child prodigy whose brilliance was clear from the start. But the struggles she endured helped make her the Queen of Soul.
My husband and I are VERY suddenly being faced with moving into his grandmother’s house which has been rented out for a year and DEMOLISHED by said renters. We are moving in to revamp the house in exchange for free rent, but it is a DAUNTING task! We were trying to figure out what...
In the 19th century, Thomas Jefferson proposed a new ciphering machine. It was a cylinder of discs mounted on a spindle. On the edge of each disc were the letters of the alphabet, arranged in random sequence. A cryptographer could align the discs to spell out a short message across the ...