He wrote out the numbers on an easel pad, but they were imponderable abstractions.
Now, another way of putting that is he rarely wrote out a full draft of anything.
After making his speech Lincoln wrote out five souvenir copies, all of which reside in institutions.
Both Ms Teresinha and Mr Soares proudly signed their names and wrote out sentences thanking UNESCO.
Instead, he tapped out bits of Mr Kelly's comments on to his personal organiser, later wrote out a longer transcript and then lost the transcript.
One of them immediately called for his CFO and wrote out a detailed memo to all county heads under his command telling them what not to spend on at all, and what to seek his pre-fact approval for before spending.
In Bottineau, North Dakota, partners Ronald Bergman and Paul Sund scoured trade magazines, joined a trade association and wrote out a list of potential customers and key decision-makers who might handle their invention -- a power broom to deal with snow, leaves and dirt.
The obituary I wrote never came out, which was okay with me.
Others wrote to point out that the Internet had been around for a long time and that the Web was only a small part of its development.
Broder of the Times wrote of running out of charge with a loaner car (the very same one we tested for our review), blaming cold weather and inaccurate chargers.
Verrazzano, an Italian in command of a French ship, smelled America before he saw it: "A sweet fragrance, " he wrote, wafted out to sea from the dense cedar forests of the Carolinas.
Evan wrote his thoughts out in an email.
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Ben Bernanke, judging from a fawning review of the book he wrote when it came out, certainly fell for it.
Herb even made a will out and wrote to his brother in California who used to be a Green Beret.
It was only a few months ago that Greece was granted a second bail-out that wrote off half its debt.
Wasendorf, knowing that the truth was about to come out, wrote a suicide note, got a bottle of vodka and drove to the PFGBest parking lot in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
But if you hone in on only the parts of the survey which you perceive as critical, or if you spend your time trying to figure out who wrote that semi-negative comment in the open-ended section, you are missing the point.
The children of today, he wrote, were missing out on "falling into ponds, eating poisonous berries, contracting stomach ache from under-ripe stolen apples, getting lost, being bitten by dogs, fighting and starting fires, sitting in cowpats and acquiring bumps the size of a duck egg on their heads".
"Everyone is just pretty much standing there motionless with their cameras out, " wrote one.
Nottingham Crown Court was told Peter Healy wrote he would "take out" Mr Kennedy when released from prison.
It should freak you out, I wrote in my November, 2011 article on the subject: Pension Red Alert: 70% of Pensions Are Never Audited.
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He wrote a memoir, put out a soul-food cookbook, and occasionally hit the stage at his Music Food Passion barbecue restaurants in Chicago and Memphis.
On the flight back, a week later, 3 days out, Kennedy wrote a draft in his own hand so that there would be a holographic version for history.
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But he wrote that should England pull out "the likelihood is that the determined hooligans will make their way to Italy anyway and find a different cause to champion".
Klass pointed out that Mozart wrote pieces for the popular audience, and that it was important to stress he was not elitist - although he is now seen that way.
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"If she reminds you a little of Dear Abby, it's because she is a little like Dear Abby with what seems a greater seriousness of purpose and far more professional authority in the advice she is handing out, " wrote the New York Herald Tribune in 1958.
When this study first came out, I actually wrote a piece about it for AOL's Black Voices website.
"I'll be back to take him out, " he wrote later on in the letter.
First, check out this story I wrote on using LinkedIn to find a job.
Whoever wrote that document and handed it out might want to launch Word and whip up a resume.
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