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Hart's and Rules
In British English, according to Hart's Rules, the general rule is that abbreviations ( in the narrow sense that includes only words with the ending, and not the middle, dropped ) terminate with a full stop ( period ), whereas contractions ( in the sense of words missing a middle part ) do not.
With extraordinary energy and professionalism, he improved and enlarged Oxford's printing resources, and developed Hart's Rules as the first style guide for Oxford's proof-readers.
* Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford
* Hart's Rules
Most scholarly publishers have a preferred style guide, usually a combination of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and: ( a ) either the Chicago Manual of Style, the MLA Style Manual, or the APA Publication Manual in the US ; or ( b ) the New Hart's Rules in the UK.
The New Hart's Rules are based the " Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers " published by Oxford University Press in 1893.
* Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford, 1st edition
* Hart's Rules
* Hart's Rules, a non-fiction book
Hart's Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford was an authoritative reference book and style guide published in England by Oxford University Press ( OUP ).
Hart's Rules originated as a compilation of rules and standards by Horace Hart over almost three decades during his employment at other printing establishments, but they were first printed as a single broadsheet page for in-house use by the OUP in 1893 while Hart was Controller of the University Press.
In February 2002, Oxford University Press published a new and much longer edition ( the fortieth ) of Hart's Rules under the title The Oxford Guide to Style, promoted as " Hart's Rules for the 21st Century ", which is of more value to editors than to typesetters.
It again provided considerably more information about editing style than Hart's Rules did, but also less about typography.
From this version was adapted New Hart's Rules: The Handbook of Style for Writers and Editors, first published in September 2005.
It includes The New Oxford Dictionary of Writers and Editors and New Hart's Rules: The Handbook of Style for Writers and Editors, both from 2005.

Hart's and Oxford
One of Hart's articles disputed the authorship of the literary works of Shakespeare, asserting that the famous plays and poems were in fact written by Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford rather than the man from Stratford-on-Avon who is credited with them.

Hart's and for
Historian Kenneth Macksey found Liddell Hart's original letters to Guderian, in the General's papers, requesting that Guderian give him credit for " impressing him " with his ideas of armoured warfare.
Matthews, after failing to support Hart, is about to leave for the bureau when he works out that Hart's suspicions were correct, and returns to help her.
Besides being copyright-free, the requirement for a Latin ( character set ) text version of the release has been a criterion of Michael Hart's since the founding of Project Gutenberg, as he believes this is the format most likely to be readable in the extended future.
Finally, Hart's general interest in printing led to him cataloguing the " Fell Types ", then using them in a series of Tudor and Stuart facsimile volumes for the Press, before ill health led to his death in 1915.
Rodgers and Hart subsequently wrote the music and lyrics for 26 Broadway musicals during a more-than-20-year partnership that ended only with Hart's early death.
Later, Kate became quite eccentric, vandalizing Hart's home, writing threatening letters and setting fires backstage during rehearsals for Jubilee.
Following Bret Hart's departure, Vince McMahon used the resulting backlash in the creation of his " Mr. McMahon " character, a dictatorial and fierce ruler who favored heels who were " good for business " over " misfit " faces like Austin.
At the time, the Chicago Tribunes movie critic, Michael Wilmington, called Hell's Hinges " Hart's acknowledged masterpiece ," " perhaps the finest movie Western made before John Ford's 1939 Stagecoach ," and " as emotionally powerful as any American film of the teens, except for the masterpieces of D. W. Griffith and Erich Von Stroheim.
The reviewer gave particular praise to Hart's directorial skill :" The camera placement here, the simple yet effective symbolism, and the flair for spectacle as in the brilliantly handled mob scenes where all of Inceville goes up in smoke, the real ' feel ' of the old, dusty, unglamorised West, all should have earned Hart a reputation as one of the great directors.
Already a preference is heard for the typical chord progression I-vi-IV-V that had generated several American 1930s hits such as Rogers and Hart's " Blue Moon " ( 1934 ), Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields ' 1936 " The Way You Look Tonight " and Hoagy Carmichael's " Heart and Soul " ( 1938 ), but would later become so closely associated with doo-wop that it is now sometimes referred to as the 50s progression.
) However, during Season 1 ( 1984 ), dancer Wendy Brainard performed as a singer for Corey Hart's " It Ain't Enough " and Donna Summer's " Dim All the Lights " and returned to the show as a guest star playing a dance instructor in season 8 ( 1992 ).
The intersection of Central Park Avenue and Hartsdale Avenue was named " Hart's Corners " after Robert Hart, one of these farmers who successfully bid for the land, and in the mid-19th century the entire area became known as " Hartsdale ".
* Hart's Mill ( 1878 – 1893 ): In 1878, Fort Bliss was established as a permanent post ; the Buffalo Soldiers of the Ninth Cavalry were sent to Fort Bliss to prevent further trouble over the salt beds and the usage of Rio Grande water for irrigation purposes.
By 1890, Hart's Mill had outlived its usefulness, and Congress appropriated $ 150, 000 for construction of a military installation on the mesa approximately east of El Paso's 1890 city limits.
Following Hart's adoption of a raw vegan diet for health and personal reasons, he replaced his farm animals with plants.
The proliferation of the word was effected by the publication of The Yuppie Handbook in January 1983 ( a tongue-in-cheek take on The Official Preppy Handbook ), followed by Senator Gary Hart's 1984 candidacy as a " yuppie candidate " for President of the United States.
* The Garden of Love an article on Robert Hart's garden by Ken Fern of Plants for a Future.
Hart's lyrics, facile, vernacular, dazzling, sometimes playful, sometimes melancholic, raised the standard for Broadway songwriting.
" Mad " Frankie Fraser was taken to court for Hart's murder but was found not guilty.

Hart's and British
* 1900 – In South Africa, Boers and British troops fight in the Battle of Hart's Hill.
Hart's most significant projects were the construction of Highway 97 to northern British Columbia ( which is now named in his honour ) and the Bridge River Power Project, which was the first major hydroelectric development in British Columbia.
Hart's most significant projects were the construction of Highway 97 to northern British Columbia ( which is named in his honour ) and the re-launch of the Bridge River Power Project, which was the first major hydroelectric development in British Columbia.
* The British Bulldog and Owen Hart's Online World of Wrestling profile
The show was main-evented by Smith ( led to the ring by the British Heavyweight Boxing champion Lennox Lewis ) and Bret Hart in a match for Hart's Intercontinental Championship.
* A. N. Wilson's Scandal and Josephine Hart's Damage are two other British novels depicting extramarital affairs of politicians which eventually lead to their downfall.
On June 5, 1832, mainly because of Hart's activism, the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada, under the influence and authority of Louis-Joseph Papineau, passed a bill ( the 1832 Emancipation Act ) that ultimately guaranteed full rights to people practising the Jewish faith, 27 years before anywhere else in the British Empire.

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