Style Manual, Volume 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959 - 496 pages "Essentially, it is a standardization device designed to achieve uniform word and type treatment, and aiming for economy of word use." -preface. |
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6-point 85TH CONGRESS abbreviations alphabet amendment apostrophe Army avoirdupois bill H.R. bird capitalized caps and small clad u.m. colored u.m. comma Committee compound Congress consonant consonantal unit copy Corps Court diacritics digraph diphthong District of Columbia Division eyed u.m. faced u.m. fed u.m. Federal figure column fish footnotes foreign words Government guide meridian Hawaiian Organic Act headed u.m. hearted House of Representatives hyphen indented indicate italic joint resolution Latin alphabet leaderwork letters looking u.m. lowercase maker mark minded u.m. National noun Office paragraph parentheses Patent plural pounds President printed pronounced proof punctuation reading column referred Rept rest one word rule Senate Serial Service shaped u.m. short tons small caps Smith space SPEAKER spelled stød stone stressed syllabification syllable symbols tail tion triphthongs U.S. Congress U.S. Senate U.S. Supreme Court Union vote vowel Washington
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Page 214 - States, and for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the bill as amended do pass. The amendments are as follows : Page 2.
Page 253 - Un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf, dix, onze, douze, Treize, quatorze, quinze, seize, dix-sept, dix-huit, dix-neuf, vingt.
Page 210 - CHANGES IN EXISTING LAW MADE RY THE BILL, AS REPORTED In compliance with clause 3 of rule XIII of the Rules of the House of Representatives, changes in existing law made by the bill, as reported, are shown as follows (existing law proposed to be omitted is enclosed in black brackets, new matter is printed in italic...
Page 219 - Senate in explanation of the effect of the action agreed upon by the managers and recommended in the accompanying conference report : The Senate amendment struck out all of the House bill after the enacting clause and inserted a substitute text.
Page 286 - Gallia est omnis divisa in partes tres, quarum unam incolunt Belgae, aliam Aquitani, tertiam, qui ipsorum lingua Celtae, nostra Galli appellantur.
Page 156 - The question was taken; and (two-thirds having voted in favor thereof ) the rules were suspended and the bill was passed.
Page 164 - An Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii...
Page 220 - February twenty-third, nineteen hundred and one, be amended by striking out all after the resolving clause and inserting in lieu thereof the following : That there shall be printed ten thousand five hundred copies of the report on field operations of the Division of Soils, Department of Agriculture...
Page 218 - Indian health care, and for other purposes, having met, after full and free conference, have agreed to recommend and do recommend to their respective Houses as follows: That the Senate recede from its disagreement to the amendment of the...
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