The Winning Entry: "A Demonstrable Proof" 

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I know, with out-and-out certainty, which mark should be the official punctuation mark of the President of the United States; it has to be the period. I say that for two reasons: 1) the fact that “full stop” is a (chiefly British [according to Webster’s]) synonym for “period” and 2) the fact that —as per the sign that sat on Harry Truman’s desk in the Oval Office — “The ... stops here!” Could any other argument top that one?

— Dana Cook Grossman, East Thetford, Vt.