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 72 - Donley. Duval. Eastland. Ector. Edwards. Ellis. El Paso. Erath. Falls. Fannin. Fayette. Fisher. Floyd. Foard. Fort Bend. Franklin. Freestone. Frio. Gaines. Galveston. Garza. Gillespie. Glasscock. Goliad. Gonzales. Gray. Grayson. Gregg. Grimes. Guadalupe. Hale. Hall. Hamilton. Hansford. Hardeman. Hardin. Harris. Harrison. Hartley. Haskel'l. Hays. Hemphill. Henderson. Hidalgo. Hill. Hoekley. Hood. Hopkins. Houston. Howard. Hunt. Hntchinson. Irion. Jack. Jackson. Jasper.
Page 49 - It also announced that the Senate had passed bills of the following titles, in which the concurrence of the House was requested: S.
Page 64 - Arkansas, Ashley, Baxter, Benton, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Carroll, Chicot, Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Cleveland, Columbia, Conway, Craighead, Crawford, Crittenden, Cross, Dallas, Desha, Drew, Faulkner, Franklin, Fulton, Garland, Grant, Greene, Hempstead, Hot Spring, Howard, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Jefferson. Johnson, Lafayette, Lawrence, Lee, Lincoln, Little River, Logan, Lonoke.
Page 72 - Anderson, Andrews, Angelina, Aransas, Archer, Armstrong, Atascosa, Austin, Bailey, Bandera, Bastrop, Baylor, Bee, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Borden, Bosque, Bowie, Brazoria, Brazos, Brewster, Briscoe, Brooks, Brown, Burleson, Burnet, Caldwell, Calhoun, Callahan, Cameron, Camp, Carson, Cass, Castro, Chambers, Cherokee, Childress, Clay, Cochran, Coke, Coleman, Collin, Collingsworth, Colorado, Comal, Comanche, Concho, Cooke, Coryell...
Page 29 - The Survey has adopted a uniform scheme for the use of hyphens in petrographic terms, based on the single principle that like names are connected by a hyphen and unlike names are not. The names used in such terms are of four classes—(a) rock names, (b) mineral names, (c) textural names, and (d) names expressing the kind of clastic aggregation.
Page 51 - An act to amend the statutes in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for other purposes," reported it without amendment. The Senate proceeded, by unanimous consent, to consider the said bill as in Committee of the Whole; and no amendment being made, it was reported to the Senate. Ordered.
Page 66 - Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Barber, Barton, Bourbon, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Comanche, Cowley, Crawford, Decatur, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas, Edwards, Elk, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney, Ford, Franklin, Geary...
Page 73 - Alleghany, Amelia, Amherst, Appomattox, Arlington, Augusta, Bath, Bedford, Bland, Botetourt, Brunswick, Buchanan, Buckingham, Campbell, Caroline, Carroll, Charles City, Charlotte, Chesterfield...
Page 66 - Adair, Adams, Allamakee, Appanoose, Audubon, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan, Buena Vista, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Cedar, Cerro Gordo, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Clarke, Clay, Clayton, Clinton, Crawford, Dallas, Davis, Decatur, Delaware, Des Moines, Dickinson, Dubuque, Emmet, Fayette, Floyd, Franklin, Fremont, Greene, Grundy, Guthrie, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Harrison, Henry, Howard, Humboldt, Ida, Iowa, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Johnson, Jones...
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