When she appeared at the store to help out for a few hours even my looking at her was surreptitious lest my Uncle notice it.

Even as she was telling me about it I became aware of a give-away flush that suffused her neck and moved upwards to her cheeks, and subconsciously I realized that when she entered the store she did not switch on the lights.

As we expected, on the following day my Uncle was completely recovered and opened the store as usual at 10 in the morning.

For the Coolidges, it was Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston, Massachusetts, owners of a large department store.

The store was their marriage, and when Alfred had to leave it there was nothing to hold them together.

And when Alfred was forced into his bed, Tessie left the front porch of the store and sat at home, rocking in her rocker in the living room, staring out the window -- the rose still in her hair.

You remember the words of President Kennedy a week or so ago, when someone asked him when he was in Canada, and Dean Rusk was in Europe, and Vice President Johnson was in Asia, `` Who is running the store ''??

In a course for supermarket operators, a district manager who had been recently appointed to his position after being outstandingly successful as a store manager, found that in supervising other managers he was having a difficult time.

and a store was broken into and robbed.

The first known telephone line in Manchester was established in July 1883 between Burr and Manley's store at Manchester Depot and the Kent and Root Marble Company in South Dorset.

These must have been for local calls strictly, as in May 1900 the `` only long distance telephone '' in town was transferred from C. B. Carleton's to Young's shoe store.

A small single switchboard was installed in the Village over Woodcock's hardware store ( later E. H. Hemenway's ).

But whenever a major purchase was contemplated forty years ago -- a new bedroom set or a winter coat, an Easter bonnet, a bicycle for Junior -- the family set off for the downtown department store, where the selection would be greatest.

When she was nine years old, she wrote a description of a store she had visited.

Deal furniture with a mahogany finish was neatly arranged as if it stood in the window of a department store.

Her husband, who was sentenced to 15 years in the federal prison at McNeil Island last April for robbery of the Hillsdale branch of Multnomah Bank, also was charged with the store holdup.

The two little bangs meant that he was getting impatient to have a crowd of customers waited on and that if he had to he would jerk open the door and drag out, by the opposite door handle which she would be clutching, whichever-the-hell clerk it was who thought she could waste so much store time on the pot.

There was to be a store ( that is, a memory ) capable of holding 1, 000 numbers of 40 decimal digits each ( ca.

Initially it was conceived as a difference engine curved back upon itself, in a generally circular layout, with the long store exiting off to one side.

To store matte information, the concept of an alpha channel was introduced by Alvy Ray Smith in the late 1970s, and fully developed in a 1984 paper by Thomas Porter and Tom Duff.

In July 2008, the company after a series of change of ownership was eventually acquired by the US private equity firm, NRDC Equity Partners, which also owned American department store chain Lord & Taylor.

Tandy was founded in 1919 as a leather supply store, and acquired RadioShack in 1963.

** The Jessop & Son department store in Nottingham, England is acquired by John Lewis Partnership ( its first store outside of London ).

In that year, Gautier, drawing upon Deburau's newly acquired audacity as a Pierrot, as well as upon the Romantics ’ store of Shakespearean plots and of Don-Juanesque legend, published a " review " of a pantomime he claimed to have seen at the Funambules.

When The Jewel Companies Inc. acquired Buttrey Food Stores in 1966, many of the stores were converted to a combination store format and bannered as " Buttrey-Osco " with common checkout stands but separate store management, all under one roof.

After the war, in 1816, Truax acquired a large tract of land in the Michigan Territory along the Detroit River from the U. S. government and constructed a sawmill, church and store in what is today downtown Trenton.

In 1927, Mrs. Ethel Slagle Clarkson acquired her brother ’ s share and she and her husband, Jabez, operated the store together until his death in 1947, at which time she continued alone until her marriage to Ed Pittman in 1950.

The center had one large anchor department store ( Pomeroys, which was acquired by The Bon-Ton ) as well as staple stores of a growing suburban demand ( JC Penney, Woolworth's, Sears-just hardware ).

There was also the smaller Texas Shopping Centre ( formerly known as Athlone Shopping Centre, prior to being acquired by the Texas department store chain ).

This led to the acquisition of Atlantic Refining and Marketing ( and, in effect, that company's convenience store chain, A-Plus ), including its Philadelphia refinery which was later merged with the former Gulf Oil refinery next door that Sunoco acquired from Chevron.

In May 2009, Toys " R " Us Inc. acquired FAO Schwarz and currently operates the retailer ’ s flagship store as well as its e-commerce site, FAO. com.

He was not fourteen when he entered Balliol College, Oxford, where he acquired a great store of knowledge outside the regular curriculum.

On leaving he was apprenticed to a civil engineer at Derby, where he acquired " a store of exclusively scientific conceptions ," but also began to look to religion for mental stimulation.

A plan to build a Tesco Extra store on the Cloffocks proved controversial with much opposition from local people ; a planning application was placed in 2006 by Tesco, after it acquired the Cloffocks site for £ 18 million ; Tesco had been competing with Asda to acquire the site since 2003.

In 1931 the label was acquired by the American Record Corporation and continued by them through 1938, when all of the ARC dime store labels ( Perfect, Melotone, Banner, and Oriole ) were discontinued.

In 1942 the college trustees acquired the Lloyd Frank ( of the historic Portland department store Meier & Frank ) “ Fir Acres ” estate in southwest Portland, and the school name was changed to Lewis & Clark College.

The Harrods business in London can be traced back to 1834, while the current store on Brompton Road on a site they acquired in 1849, was constructed between 1894 and 1905.

By 1994, Federated Department Stores acquired the remaining ten Horne's stores and merged them with its Lazarus division, completely ceasing all operations of any store under the Horne's name.

Ownership of the company was passed down through the Macy family until 1895, when the company, now called " R. H. Macy & Co .", was acquired by Isidor Straus and his brother Nathan Straus, who had previously held a license to sell china and other goods in the Macy's store.

In 1998, Blockbuster created DEJ Productions which acquired 225 films primarily to provide exclusive content to its Blockbuster stores prior to being sold off to First Look Studios in 2005 .." During that same year, Blockbuster bought the Irish video rental store xtra vision, with over 200 stores in Ireland and the UK.

Also that year, they acquired Gamestation, a 64 store UK computer and console games retailer chain.

Tesco acquired the Safeway store, Wilkinson took over the former Somerfield store and the former Co-op superstore was subdivided into a number of units which provided the town with a new main post office, Morrisons supermarket and Store Twenty One clothing store.