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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.
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.

store and their
At 7:25 two hotel doormen came thumping down the steps, carrying a saw-horse to be set up as a barricade in front of the haberdashery store window next to the entranceway, and as I watched them in their gaudy red coats that nearly scraped the ground, their golden, fringed epaulets and spic, red-visored caps, I suddenly saw just over their shoulders Jessica gracefully making her way through the crowd.
The radio broadcasts themselves were often so patiently informative, despite the baseball jargon, that girls and women could begin to store up in their minds the same sort of random and meaningless statistics that small boys had long learned better than they ever did their lessons in school.
Succulent plant s, such as this Aloe, store water in their enlarged fleshy leaves, stems, or roots, as shown in this split aloe leaf.
It is an essential responsibility of members of the museum profession to create and maintain a protective environment for the collections in their care, whether in store, on display, or in transit.
Nucleic acids are the molecules that make up DNA, an extremely important substance that all cellular organisms use to store their genetic information.
* Detoxification — bone tissues can also store heavy metals and other foreign elements, removing them from the blood and reducing their effects on other tissues.
All organisms have cells, the cell types are unique and their nuclei store most of the DNA.
Beavers do not hibernate, but store sticks and logs in a pile in their ponds, eating the underbark.
Von Neumann machines differ in having a memory in which they store their operating instructions and data.
Chives can be found fresh at most markets year-round, making them readily available ; they can also be dry-frozen without much impairment to the taste, giving home growers the opportunity to store large quantities harvested from their own gardens.
The original System / 360 models of IBM mainframe had read-only control store, but later System / 360, System / 370 and successor models loaded part or all of their microprograms from floppy disks or other DASD into a writable control store consisting of ultra-high speed random-access read-write memory.
For example, there is a hard disk, from which most operating systems run and on which most store their files.
Eukaryotic organisms ( animals, plants, fungi, and protists ) store most of their DNA inside the cell nucleus and some of their DNA in organelles, such as mitochondria or chloroplasts.
In contrast, prokaryotes ( bacteria and archaea ) store their DNA only in the cytoplasm.
* their litter and other organic residue change soil properties that affect the capacity of soil to store water.
PostgreSQL is often used for global mission critical applications ( the. org and. info domain name registries use it as their primary data store, as do many large companies and financial institutions ).
The lamps also had to be provided by the miners themselves, not the owners, as traditionally the miners bought their own candles from the company store.
Some states and store chains have implemented restrictions, such as requiring signatures for DXM sale, limiting quantities allowable for purchase, and requiring that purchasers be over the age of majority in their state.
The store sold " hip " clothing and accessories and also allowed customers to design their own clothes.

store and marriage
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.
Settling in western Tobucksy County, some west of a pioneer general store owned by J. J. McAlester, Atwood in 1882 married a young woman named Patsy Ann, of the Choctaw Nation, giving him settlement rights by marriage.
Two weeks later, Scarlett is shocked when she sees Rhett while she is running Frank's store, free from the Yankees and amused that she has rushed into yet another marriage with a man she does not love, much less the fact that she stole him right out from under her sister's nose.
Mike soon agreed to his sister marrying Maynard, apparently on condition that they move the store to Duwamps and do something about that prior marriage.
Phil Berquist ( Daniel Stern ) is stuck managing his father-in-law's grocery store, while trapped in a sexless marriage with his overbearing wife, Arlene.
During the two-year marriage, she reportedly worked as a clerk in Kaufmann's department store in Pittsburgh.
In the winter of 1820-1821, he had met and fallen in love with Katharina Fröhlich ( 1801 – 1879 ), but whether owing to a presentiment of mutual incompatibility, or merely owing to Grillparzer's conviction that life had no happiness in store for him, he shrank from marriage.
Michelle " Micki " Foster ( played by Louise Robey ) inherits the store, which she co-owns with her cousin by marriage, Ryan Dallion.
Ryan Dallion ( played by John D. LeMay ), Micki's cousin by marriage, also inherited the store.
As the wife and ex-wife of two unfaithful men, she explained her marriage philosophy to the Times in 1987: " I can never understand the wives who really mind, the wives who set such store by fidelity.
The plot concerns the marriage of Michael Anton and Pauline Barclay, who meet when he tends to her bloodied brow in his family's grocery store, located in a primarily Eastern European conclave in Baltimore, in December 1941.
* On the Desperate Housewives series, Lynette ( Felicity Huffman ) wears a French maid outfit she bought at a lingerie store to spice up her marriage.
She later deliberately gets caught shoplifting just to meet the good looking store detective, and receives a shy marriage proposal from the young paperboy as he delivers the next weeks ' Young and Lovely ' magazine, meaning her horoscope did come true after all.
George W. Strawbridge, Jr., a Campbell Soup Company director, heir to the Strawbridge & Clothier department store fortune, and major shareholder in Meridian Bancorp, became director and largest individual shareholder in the Corestates Corporation, continuing an ongoing marriage between the bank and one of the region's most iconic companies, the Campbell Soup Company, that had in the 1970s made G. Morris Dorrance, Jr., scion of the Campbell clan and prominent Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, socialite, PNB's board chairman.
The Wellcomes ' marriage was not happy, and Syrie reportedly had numerous affairs, including with the department store magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge, Brig.
It was an unsuccessful marriage to a man, 12 years her junior, who drank, stole from the store and sometimes beat her.

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