Objecting to a preposition

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard <gcohen at mst.edu>wrote:

> Looks like a blend:
> "...the first J.B. to make a U.S. Olympic team in more than 50 years."
> "A J.B. hasn't been on a U.S. Olympic team for more than 50 years."
>

I agree. Gerald's incisive mind has pierced to the heart of the matter!
It's not anything that the average spell-/gramm-check can catch.

Yet.
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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