On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The office was of logs, four rooms, each heated by an iron stove.

Moreover, as long as the weapon was carried openly, the sheriff's office had made no previous issue of it.

When he regained consciousness he was in Lord's house, in the office of Doctor Lord, the deputy's deceased father.

A lamp burned inside, but Brannon, peering through the window, saw that the office was empty.

During his two terms the Constitution was tested and found workable, strong national policies were inaugurated, and the traditions and powers of the Presidential office firmly fixed.

'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.

The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit '' was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as well as small, reflecting popular approval of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land.

At Stettin the university-educated artist, who had studied German, was chosen to serve as interpreter and clerk in the office of the Stalag commander.

He is not one to remain more comfortably and unquestioningly within a body of social, cultural, or literary traditions than he was within the traditions -- or possibly the regulations -- governing his tenure in the post office at Oxford, Mississippi, thirty-five years ago.

she also went to Washington and appealed to Senator George William Norris of Nebraska, the Fighting Liberal, from whose office a sympathetic but cautious harrumphing was heard.

Carl, who was stationed in Appleton, Wisconsin, organizing for the Social Democrats, was in Berger's office and made it his business to escort Paula to the streetcar.

Outside the office windows, twenty-four stories above Wall Street, a light rain was falling.

Rob Roy was self-appointed to accompany the President to his office every morning.

On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

After Quiney was elected bailiff in September, 1601, without Greville's approval, Greene wrote him that Coke had promised to be of counsel for Stratford and had advised `` that the office of bayly may be exercised as it is taken upon you, ( Sr. Edwardes his consent not beinge hadd to the swearinge of you ) ''.

When he came home from his office at the end of the afternoon, Breasted never knew what gathering he should expect to find, but there almost always was one.

Even Rector himself was prey to this spirit of competition and he knew it, not for a more exalted office in the hierarchy of the church -- his ambitions for the bishopry had died very early in his career -- but for the one clear victory he had talked about to the colonel.

When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector's office rarely rang unless it was important.

He found Elizabeth in the parlor and asked her to make sure everything was in order in the residential hall, and then to take charge of the office while the party was here.

But after the doctor's return that night Alex could see, from the high window in his own room, the now familiar figure crouched on a truly impressive heap of towels, apparently giving its egg-hatching powers one final chance before it was replaced in its office by a sure-enough hen.

On June 30, 1974, the Cleveland and Cincinnati highway post office, the last HPO route, was discontinued.

Its fourth class post office was discontinued on February 28, 1969.

Mail from this discontinued post office was then handled at Villegreen, Colorado, now also a discontinued post office.

The post office was discontinued in 1919, but re-established in 1921 and closed for good in 1934.

The post office was discontinued again in 1966.

There was also a post office named Longboat established on March 27, 1914, in the Sarasota County portion of the key, but it was discontinued on January 14, 1922, and its functions were assumed by the Sarasota post office.

The Rio post office was discontinued on March 15, 1902, with the area being taken over by the post office at Goslingville, which was located on the narrow peninsula just north of the present day Roosevelt Bridge.

A post office was established there in 1861, but had been discontinued by 1880.

The office was discontinued on August 14, 1909, reestablished on June 3, 1910, and closed on February 15, 1955.

The office was discontinued on October 15, 1910.

The office was discontinued in 1984.

The post office was discontinued on July 15, 1984.

The office was discontinued on August 11, 1967.

The office was discontinued on June 29, 1907.

The post office was discontinued on January 16, 1976 and became a CPO of Baraga.

A post office named " Spurr Mountain " opened December 30, 1874 and was discontinued December 15, 1887.

The office was discontinued on February 1, 1974.

The post office was discontinued on September 22, 1967.

A post office opened November 7, 1891 and was discontinued July 31, 1923.

The post office was discontinued on February 28, 1857, having been superseded by the larger village that had developed in North Adams.