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Procrustean bed. (use of prepositions and prepositional clauses)
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In the issue of Fall 1997 appeared a delightful article by Robert Steiner concerning the preposition problem - not ending a sentence "with." The rule on never ending a sentence with a preposition arose, apparently, from late 17th-early 18th century determination to establish an English "grammar" based heavily on Latin principles. Among the problems involved in fitting a Germanic language onto an Italic Procrustean Bed lay the fact that the item termed a preposition (a part of speech identified specifically by Dionysius Thrax) by definition could not follow the word it governed, ...
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Major George "Tony" Bancroft, USMCR Joins GAMCO Investors, Inc.
Business Wire
; ...GBL) today announced that G. Anthony Bancroft, II has joined GAMCO in a marketing...through the institutional channels." Bancroft was most recently a U.S. Marine Corps...Marines, including service in Iraq. Bancroft graduated in 1998 from the U.S. Naval...
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 "Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)")
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Great historian George Bancroft now lost to history.(INSIGHT)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
; ...School. On Oct. 3, 1800, George Bancroft was born in a modest frame house...person in Worcester history, George Bancroft's name would have led all the...historian, it would have been George Bancroft, hands down. His History of...
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Columbia Announces 2004 Bancroft Prize Winners; Three Esteemed Historians - Edward L. Ayers, Steven Hahn and George M. Marsden - to Receive Awards Monetary Value of Prestigious Prize Significantly Increases.
PR Newswire
; ...awarded the renowned Bancroft Prize for 2004, Columbia...Great Migration;" and George M. Marsden, "Jonathan...field of history, the Bancroft is awarded annually by...American Historians. Bancroft jurors described "A...Jim Crow and beyond." George M. Marsden, author...
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Samuel Bancroft and collecting English art.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques
; ...1875 hung at Barlow Fold. Bancroft asked to have a photograph...6) It was a decade before Bancroft purchased an actual Pre-Raphaelite...popular exhibition of the work of George Frederick Watts, a close friend...times." (8) Six years later Bancroft purchased Watts's Portrait...
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BANCROFT LIBRARY EXHIBIT MATERIALS TELL TALES OF '06 QUAKE
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...starting Jan. 18 at: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections...Theresa Salazar, curator of The Bancroft's Collection of Western Americana...Working with then-Gov. George Pardee and the Carnegie Institute...policy and water issues. The Bancroft is celebrating its centennial...
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BANCROFT LIBRARY RECEIVES VAST ARCHIVES OF SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...than double the size of the Bancroft's photographic print collection...negatives. In addition, the Bancroft will be given the 850 bound...assassination of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey...This is a great day for the Bancroft and for all students of California...
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 "South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)")
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Bancroft wins third state title: Jupiter Christian senior needs overtime in final.
Newspaper article from: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
; ...Brousseau Feb. 18--LAKELAND -- George Bancroft headlined a pair of champions...ve tried to bury it." Joining Bancroft was Tommy Bennett, who won his...JUPC) 4-2 (OT); 152: George Bancroft (JUPC) d. Ivan Loupashankiy...
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Bancroft, Bennett, Downs eye titles.
Newspaper article from: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
; ...time state champions George Bancroft, Tommy Bennett and Carter...up a little short." Bancroft (47-2) will attempt...Miami Pace. He will face Bancroft. Rossi will wrestle...Allen Held (SB) t.p. George Garcia (HIA) 17-1...
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Gabriel N. Drapos; Bancroft School.(STUDENT ACHIEVERS)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
; ...East Brookfield PARENTS: George Drapos, Barbara Drapos. HONORS AND AWARDS: Bancroft Cum Laude Society, Grade...University Award, Grade 11; Bancroft Fairfield-Bennet Scholarship...Distinction; finalist for the Bancroft Senior Thesis Award (winner...
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 "News Sun, The (Waukegan, IL)")
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Rose M. Bancroft
Newspaper article from: News Sun, The (Waukegan, IL)
; ...1963); mother of Denis Bancroft and Shirley (Dennis) Coppi...Aura, Austin and Emma Rose Bancroft; great grandmother of Ashley and Dawson Vanwinkle and Enya Bancroft; mother-in-law of the late George Muzzarelli; Honorary grandmother...
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