Manual of Style for Use of Copy Editors, Proof Readers, Operators, and Compositors Engaged in the Production of Executive, Congressional, and Departmental PublicationsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1908 - 91 pages |
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58TH CONGRESS abbreviated adjectives take hyphen amendments Army berry bill H. R. bird box heads Capitalize when referring Cherokee Chicago Columbia Committee compositors Congress Copy editors Court cut-in dash date columns Department District division dollars eyed figure columns fish folio foot Franklin Georgia Government Haikwan hearted heartedness hole indented indicated indorsement italic Jackson Jefferson Lake leaders letter Lincoln Louis Southwestern Railway Lower lower-case Madison Marion mark mindedness monger Monroe Montgomery name is given National Naval Navy noun Ohio Omit Ordovician pany paragraph Pennsylvania Railroad porphyry preceding prefix President printed Province punctuation quads Quarto Railroad Company Railway Company reading columns Republic resolution rest one word roman ROMAN NUMERALS root rule Senate signature singular form slug small caps Smith Southern Railway space spell stone style tables tail Texas Union vowel ware Washington Wayne weed Western Railway wing wood worm wort York
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Page 51 - Whole; and no amendment being made, it was reported to the Senate. Ordered, That it pass to a third reading.
Page 49 - S. 2905. An act for the relief of John M. Smith. It also announced that the Senate had passed bills of the following titles, in which the concurrence of the House was requested: S. 2000. An act for the relief of James Robinson; and S. 2001. An act granting a pension to Sam Jones. It further announced that the Senate had passed, without amendment, the bill (HR 10241) to amend "An act making appropriations for rivers and harbors, and for other purposes,
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Page 7 - *o far as we have/ may be attributed to the growth of a class of professional proof readers, and it is to them that we owe the correctness of modern printing.. More er/ors have been found in the Bible than in any other one work. For many generations it was frequently the case that Bibles were brought out stealthily; from fear of governmental interference.
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