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When ready to place their orders, customers would take the tablet to a clerk who would act as a cashier and submit the order to the store's stockroom ( this process was altered in the late 1980s to allow customers to place their own orders with a self-service computer terminal named " Silent Sam ", which later was renamed " Service Express ").
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When and ready
When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.
When they were ready to leave, Benson and Ramey walked back around the rear of the trailer.
When Alex entered his room, the doctor was already preparing a nest in the straw case, six eggs ready for the hen's attentions.
When winter comes be ready with additional mulch.
When she said that she didn't have the money, he said that she could come in for treatment with his office model until she was ready to buy one.
When he charged Mickey was ready.
When Datis surrendered and was ready for retreat, the Ionians climbed the trees and gave the Athenians the signal that the cavalry had left.
When the Athenian line was ready, according to one source, the simple signal to advance was given by Miltiades: " At them ".
When the database is ready ( all its data structures and other needed components are defined ) it is typically populated with initial application's data ( database initialization, which is typically a distinct project ; in many cases using specialized DBMS interfaces that support bulk insertion ) before making it operational.
When Maynard Smith realized that the somewhat disorganised Price was not ready to revise his article for publication, he offered to add Price as co-author.
When a program was ready it was hung on a length of line strung up near the paper tape reader.
" When he was ready to publish, the Czarist censors would not allow it.
When the Æsir exclaimed that they were ready, Fenrir shook himself, knocked the fetter to ground, strained hard, and kicking with his feet, snapped the fetter – breaking it into pieces that flew far into the distance.
When I will be ready to welcome at last, the girl I left behind ".
When new professional leagues started up to challenge the NFL's post-merger monopoly on professional football, Jacksonville was ready to join.
When the house was ready to pass the Act for dissolution, Mr. Crew who had been as forward as any man in beginning and carrying on the war against the last King, moved, that before they dissolved themselves, they would bear their witness against the horrid murder, as he called it, of the King.
When ready, the grain is immersed or " steeped " in water two or three times over two or three days to allow the grain to absorb moisture and to start to sprout.
When a despairing Mayerson chooses death, he finds himself apparently forced into Eldritch's body right at the point in the timeline where Bulero is ready to shoot a torpedo at Eldritch's ship.
When the fear or aggression response is initiated, the amygdala may trigger the release of hormones into the body to put the human body into an " alert " state, in which they are ready to move, run, fight, etc.
When Parma Elementary was first built ( in 1952 ), the Kindergarten class met in the Masonic Temple in Parma until the school was ready to open.
When food runs out and they are ready to form sporangia, they do something radically different.
When requiring fresh ideas, Anderson would travel to New York, buy songs that had been American hits, and then translated or transcribe the lyrics on the return journey ready for a recording session shortly after and then have the record on the shelves within a few days.
An old saying goes, " The first time you think of reducing sail you should ," and correspondingly, " When you think you are ready to take out a reef, have a cup of tea first.
When the receiver is ready, the server will serve, although the receiver must play to the pace of the server.
* When the player on the receiving side is not ready and the service is delivered.
When and place
When the roof blocks are all in place, the final rows of wall blocks are mortared into position.
When cut, the planking is clamped in place for a final and careful trimming.
When drilling all the way through a workpiece, always place a piece of scrap wood underneath.
When I have instructions to leave is equivalent in meaning to I have instructions that I am to leave this place, dominant stress is ordinarily on leave.
When it was all arranged to fit, and not to interrupt the lengthwise flow of movement in the frieze, the cartoons were tried in place.
When in place, a well-cemented band actually protects the part of the tooth that is covered.
When the husband drops the case and returns to his wife, both seem sorry they brought the matter up in the first place.
Bruce Hindmarsh suggests that the secular popularity of " Amazing Grace " is due to the absence of any mention of God in the lyrics until the fourth verse ( by Excell's version, the fourth verse begins " When we've been there ten thousand years "), and that the song represents the ability of humanity to transform itself instead of a transformation taking place at the hands of God.
When the priests emerged from the holy place after placing the Ark there, the Temple was filled with a cloud, " for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord " ( 1 Kings 8: 10-11 ; 2 Chron.
When the merger took place, all ten AFL franchises became part of the merged league's new American Football Conference ( AFC ), with three teams from the original 16-team NFL ( the Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns, and Baltimore Colts ) joining them.
" When he was looking for a suitable place to step into the stream, he heard the sweet chirping of birds.
In the Book of Matthew 24: 15, of the New Testament, Jesus gives attestation to Daniel, " When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place ( let the reader understand )".
When the secularization of church lands took place ( 1802 ) the diocese covered and had a population of 207, 000.
When Spain opened the Cuban trade ports, it quickly became a popular place.
When he went to seek the Governor-General's approval of the election, the Governor-General instead dismissed him as Prime Minister, and shortly thereafter installed leader of the opposition Malcolm Fraser in his place.
When finally gaining possession of the place, the Maccabeans pointedly destroyed and razed the Acra, though they constructed another citadel for their own use in a different part of Jerusalem.
When ITV did return, its first evening schedule included a special " catch-up " edition of Coronation Street, in which storylines which would have taken place during the strike were explained away in the form of a narrative chat between Len Fairclough and Bet Lynch.
When asked which of his stories was a favorite in several interviews Barks cited the ten-pager in Walt Disney's Comics and Stories # 146 ( Nov. 1952 ) in which Donald tells the story of the chain of unfortunate events that took place when he owned a chicken farm in a town which subsequently was renamed Omelet.
Egypt is identified in the Bible as the place of refuge that the Holy Family sought in its flight from Judea: " When he arose, he took the young Child and His mother by night and departed for Egypt, and was there until the death of Herod the Great, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt I called My Son " ( Matthew 2: 12 – 23 ).
When the Air Force project wound down, the Lab turned their attention to an effort to build a version of the Whirlwind using transistors in place of vacuum tubes.
When asked about the " DK " logo in an interview, Jello Biafra explained, "... I wanted to make sure it was something simple and easy to spray-paint so people would graffiti it all over the place, and then I showed it to Winston Smith.
When William was shot dead in 1584, by Balthazar Gerards in the hall of the Prinsenhof, the family's traditional burial place in Breda was still in the hands of the Spanish.
When the floor of the Dead Sea dropped further due to tectonic forces, the salt mounts of Lisan and Mount Sodom stayed in place as high cliffs.
When compared with women of other nations, Finnish women, who accounted for just over 50 percent of the population in the mid1980s, did have a privileged place.
When two miscible liquids are brought into contact, and diffusion takes place, the macroscopic ( or average ) concentration
0.207 seconds.