Word: corners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want his bride to know she had married a man whose grandson shined shoes. The boy didn't want to give up a whole day's profits, so he worked until he heard the train whistle, then folded up his stand and hid around the corner. After Can and his bride passed, Ray went back to work...
...some 6,000 stores, which operate from Maine to the Mexican border. This year, total discount-house sales in the nation will be about $5 billion. Many small retailers worry that the booming discount houses will do to them what cash & carry supermarkets did to the old corner grocery...
...where an old man sat, sipping beer and talking occasionally to an even older colored woman in the chair beside him. The bartender, a balding man with a limp and a hearing aid, rested his back against the counter, his eyes fixed on the television set in the far corner of the room. From time to time he would pick up an empty beer glass and fill it from the tap marked Kruger. The bar was speckled with little pools of beer and small change, mostly dimes and quarters. Nobody was talking...
...ability for independent work, understanding of the field or of a particular course, and his written and oral expression. Also, they classify a student's grasp of ideals, factual material, initiative, participation, and course work from "Excellent" to "Below Minimum Standards." Grades are put in the bottom right hand corner...
...quotes, which I envy. She keeps accounts, brews coffee, gets impossible reservations for unexpected delegations, struggles with appointments, pictures and air-express pickups. She doesn't have the fun that we reporters do chasing news. She sits at the desk when we are in an remote corner of Maine or some other place and all the editors in New York are suddenly demanding immediate action of other projects. By quick thinking and an superb telephone manner, she manages to tie all the loose ends together." Ann's knowledge of languages (Lithuanian, Russian. Polish and Back Bay American...