Word: stockes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...order of judgment, a spirit of true democracy, which recognizes a man by his deeds. The management of the department store, in all its complicated details, requires the greatest of intelligence and foresight. Each department must be handled with particular consideration, for the amount of capital and stock for the different branches of the business cannot be generalized. A system adequate for the successful operation of such a business is necessarily complicated in the extreme. The merchant must know how often to turn over every class of merchandise, and when and how much to risk is a matter of daily...
Cooperative Society Store--Until December 30, the store will be open at the usual hours; it will be closed for the semi-annual stock-taking for the remainder of that week...
...dialect has greater verisimilitude than we commonly look for in such things. The defective who turns out to be more of a man than was expected figures also in "Jean and the Rabbit-Jules," and in Mr. Barber's "Club-foot Joe." He is as much one of the stock characters of the woods story as the rascally slave of Latin comedy; but three appearances in one week is overworking him, and the reader would sympathize if he struck. Mr. Ashwell writes of a day's fishing in Devon, in which he found sober English trout properly...
...such numbers and eagerness as we read attended the lectures of Abelard. To be properly nourished, each age needs something that is not grown on its own soil. Besides the nutrition that is "timely," a little of that on which our forefathers fed keeps up the continuity of the stock. The methods of Mr. Norton were superbly out of date in our specialistic time. He saw in the Fine Arts the embodiment of man's deepest and most durable ideals; and with almost a religious fervor he brought these to bear on every aspect of the petty and careless life...
Hetherington, A.F., stock brokerage...