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 * The editorial "Haphazard Budgeting"
 * "Compensation," by Emerson (essay)
 * "United States To Appoint Representative to U.N." (heading for headline)
 * In "Search for Paradise" (motion picture); "South Pacific" (play)
 * A paper on "Constant-Pressure Combustion" was read.
 * "O Captain! My Captain!" (short poem)
 * The report "Atomic Energy: What It Means to the Nation"; but annual report of the Public Printer
 * This was followed by the singing of "The Star-Spangled Banner."
 * Under the subhead "Sixty Days of Turmoil" will be found* * *.
 * The subject (or theme) of the conference is "Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy."

also Account 5, "Management fees."
 * Under the heading "Management and Operation."
 * Under the appropriation "Building of ships, Navy."

To enclose misnomers, slang expressions, sobriquets, coined words, or ordinary words used in an arbitrary way.


 * His report was "bunk."
 * It was a "gentlemen's agreement."
 * The "invisible government" is responsible.
 * George Herman "Babe" Ruth.

but He voted for the lameduck amendment.

Quotation marks close up to adjacent characters except when they precede a fraction or an apostrophe or precede or follow a superior figure or letter, in which case a thin space is used. A thin space is used to separate double and single quotation marks.

Quotation marks are not used—

In poetry. The lines of a poem should align on the left, those that rhyme taking the same indention.

Why seek to scale Mount Everest,
 * Queen of the air?

Why strive to crown that cruel crest
 * And deathward dare?