As John Updike said, if the phrase "woman of letters" existed, Oates would be the person most entitled to it.
Create a phrase or series of letter that is seemingly "random" but is easy to remember.
However, certain phrases of the letters (including verses in the style of Ronsard) and certain characteristics of style would be compatible with known writings of Mary.
For example, a group that helps orphanages recently sought assistance in updating the phrasing of its thank-you letters to donors.
Paracel's machines are designed to sift documents rapidly for particular words, phrases or strings of letters -- an ability of obvious use to those filtering communications for important nuggets.
BBC journalist Alistair Cooke, broadcaster of Letter from America, remembered a choice phrase from World War Two, during a meeting of commanders in General Eisenhower's headquarters in London.
These measures include associate production norms, contextual relatedness in terms of latent semantic analysis distance, total number of letters, phrase-level usage frequency, and word-level usage frequency summed across the words in each pair.
You can go true police style and assign each phrase a number or couple of letters, or you can assign phrases instead (like what hospitals use).
Actually, it's a bit simpler than a theme; it's a list of phrases with circled letters that spell out the fun phrase READY OR NOT, HERE I COME.
There are a few more or less objective criteria (College Board test scores, performance in advanced placement courses), but much of the decision making comes down to whether a particular reader likes the tone of a student's personal essay or gets excited -- or disturbed -- by a phrase in a letter of recommendation.
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