- Mr. Gregg & Dr. Appleton were rivals.
- Harris lacked but one of having a grade of one hundred; i. e., he had the two O's already.
- His inheritance tax was three thousand $. In Apr. he moved from Portland, Me., to Sandusky, O.
- Prof. Kellogg came down Beech St. at a quarter before eight every a. m.
- A No. of old friends visited them on special occasions; e. g., on their wedding anniversaries.
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[84a.] It is customary to use figures for dates, for the street numbers in addresses, for reference to the pages of a book, and for statistics.
- Right: June 16, 1920. 804 Chalmers Street. See Chapter 4, especially page 79.
[Note.]—It is desirable not to write st, nd, or th after the day of the month if the year is designated also. Right: March 3, 1919 (not March 3rd, 1919).
[b.] Figures are used for numbers which cannot be expressed in a few words. The dollar sign and figures are used with complicated sums of money.
- Right: The farm comprised 3260 acres. The population of Kansas City, Missouri, was 248,381 in 1910. He earned $437 while attending school. The cost of the improvement was $1,940.25.
[c.] In other instances than those specified in a and b numbers as a rule should be written out. (This rule applies to numbers and to sums of money which can be expressed in a few words, to sums of money less than one dollar, and to ages and time of day.)
- Right: The box weighs two hundred pounds. Xerxes had an army of three million men. I enclose seventy-five cents. He owed twelve hundred dollars. Grandfather Toland is eighty-seven years old. The train is due at a quarter past three.
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