italics
italics Style of handwriting developed by the Florentine humanist Niccolò Niccoli in the 15th century. By the 16th century it had replaced Gothic script in most European countries. The 20th century has seen its revival. It is now used in printed works to indicate emphasis or foreign words.
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Foreign Words.(Brief article)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Small Press Bookwatch; 5/1/2006; 141 words
; Foreign Words Vassilis Alexakis, author Alyson Waters...0975444417 $16.95 www.autumnhillbooks.com Foreign Words deftly authored by Vassilis Alexakis...Paris and his father's death in Greece, Foreign Words takes place in Alexakis' disposition...
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Attitudes.(20th century dance)
Magazine article from: Dance Magazine; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; The 20th century could--at least in the Western world-be called the Century of the Woman. It was a century of emancipation and universal suffrage, women's rights, feminism, and, at least on paper, equal opportunity, if not equal wages. But despite...
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Pride, principle, determination.(US railroads in 20th century)
Magazine article from: Railway Age; 12/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...manner of adversity, railroads during the 20th Century have fueled the American economic engine. With...congestion increase. History records that the 20th Century was the American century. It couldn't have been so without America's railroads...
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20th Century's comeback: insurer returns to solid footing after 1994 quake. (20th Century Industries)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 10/14/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...president and CEO of Woodland Hills-based 20th Century Industries. I came into the company and...across the room. But the damage to 20th Century's headquarters was nothing compared to...conclusion. But those days are over, and 20th Century is once again basking in relative success...
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Analysts expect 20th Century management changes. (20th Century Industries)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 10/10/1994; ; 592 words
; ...Group's deal to infuse capital into 20th Century Industries Inc. is a good move for both...for everybody -- obviously for the 20th Century people because they're still in business...would eventually prove dilutive to 20th Century shareholders, but that it was preferable...
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What century is this? You can carve this in stone: the 21st century is the Century of the Entrepreneur. And the world is a better place as a result!
Magazine article from: Detroiter; 11/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; The 20th century dawned on Messrs. Ford, Kellogg, Dow...years ago, the 1900s actually became the century of the major corporation--the kind of...Regardless of the industry, the 20th century's early entrepreneurs needed one common...
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20th Century bounces back to solid profitability. (20th Century Industries Inc.)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 4/29/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...hit $100 million WOODLAND HILLS - 20th Century Industries Inc. is a stellar example of...earthquake. When the shaking subsided, 20th Century's Woodland Hills headquarters was left...completed only last November. Meanwhile, 20th Century's employees were wholly focused on recovering...
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Century 21 enters 21st century.(Technology Update)(agreement with LoopNet Inc.)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Real Estate Weekly; 10/15/2003; 153 words
; LoopNet, Inc. announced an agreement with Century 21 Real Estate Corporation under which Century 21 Commercial program properties will be available...listing featured on LoopNet.com will include the Century 21 Commercial program branding and hyperlinks...
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Niall's saga.(The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West)(Book review)
Magazine article from: National Review; 9/25/2006; ; 700+ words
; The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West...statistical tables. Covering the 20th century, it starts in 1904 when, for the first...by arguing that the real loser in the century was the West, and the real winner Asia...
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Loan of $175 million allows insurer 20th Century to hike its capital base. (20th Century Industries)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 7/4/1994; ; 568 words
; ...175 million bank loan will enable 20th Century Industries Inc. to write insurance on...industry experts. Woodland Hills-based 20th Century announced last week it had received a...casualty insurers in the nation, 20th Century also announced last week it expects to...
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italic
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...x220E; (of handwriting) modeled on 16th-century Italian handwriting, typically cursive and sloping and with elliptical or pointed letters. • n. (also i·tal·ics ) an italic typeface or letter: the key words are in italics .
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Italic
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
I·tal·ic / iˈtalik; īˈtal- / • adj. relating to or denoting the branch of Indo-European languages that includes Latin, Oscan, Umbrian, and the Romance languages. • n. the Italic group of languages.
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ITALIC
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
ITALIC, also italic script , italic type , italics . A slightly slanted letter form based...are also italicized: Griffin v. Jones . Italics are often used to mark exotic and unusual...nature the pathetic fallacy .’ Italics highlight words which the writer wishes...
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Italic languages
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages that may be divided into two groups. The first group consists of the ancient Italic languages and dialects that were once spoken in Italy. The most important of these were Latin, Faliscan, Oscan, and Umbrian; Latin was the only one to survive
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Umbrian
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
, extinct language belonging to the Italic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages. See Italic languages .
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