Happy 50th, Strunk & White!

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The Elements of Style turns 50 years old this April. I used it as the subject of my college admission essay on "a book that changed your life"; it clearly worked, since I was accepted (and got the scholarship I was aiming for).

I can't condone theft from libraries, but this case might be the exception:

Strunk's "Elements of Style" probably would have vanished for good had not someone stolen one of the two copies in the Cornell library in 1957 and sent it to White.

Omit needless words. (If you can't, at least LJ-cut.)

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*sets off fireworks*