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written record

n. a written document preserving knowledge of facts or events [syn: written account]

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When his private correspondence and diaries are combined with the letters penned by Abigail, the value of the written record is compounded by geometric proportions.

Within western culture, there is a clear history of this mnemotechnic tradition, running back to Greek times, though the written record of the method is not Greek but Roman, and first appears in De Oratore, a famous text on the art of rhetoric - that is, of argument and debate - by the Roman politician and writer Cicero.

He left it in writing, but Mary Beth destroyed the written record, and she told it to Stella but Stella never really understood.

It was Drag's business to have eyes in the back of his head (since even here the jungle was - not without power to strike), keep count of his paces, and keep written record of all course changes and the number of paces between each-dead reckoning navigation marked down in a waterproof notebook strapped to his wrist.

The linguistic part of it is obscure some sort of written record is there.

McGeorge Bundy told Attwood, extremely worried about a leak or a written record.

Those were days long before the written record of any human impressions, and we are left almost entirely to inference and guesswork in our answers to these questions.

Dr Armitage made no written record of its mouthings, but asserts confidently that nothing in English was uttered.