Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think something's wrong if they don't." Carpenter agreed dazedly. Once outside, Powell told Stella to keep going. "When they were safe, I slipped into the gangway where he couldn't see me from the window, leaped a fence and ran to a cigar store to phone the police...
...that Metcalf had dropped at a dinner some years before, Manhattan Financier Thomas W. Lamont (1892) gave Harvard $1,500,000 for a new open-stack undergraduate library. Meanwhile, Metcalf helped to set up the New England Deposit Library, in which colleges and universities in the Greater Boston area store their little-used books, and the Farmington Plan by which colleges and universities buy foreign publications in common, thus covering the foreign field thoroughly while avoiding wasteful duplications...
Kitchen-Table Medici. The new kind of tiger keeps his nails closely trimmed and highly polished, spreads a heavy coating of talcum over his blue-shaven jaws, wears dark blue suits bought (price range: $75-$90) at Abe Stark's Brooklyn store, has the worldly and weighted mien of a Medici, and goes by the nickname of "The Bishop." He lives in a four-room apartment furnished in a style something less than half way between 1920 Grand Rapids and 1955 Park Avenue. There, one recent morning, Carmine De Sapio was taking his own sort of grassroots samplings...
...Sure that big profits awaited the polisher, Maidman began buying Tiffany stock early last year. By early 1955, claiming control of almost 10% of the company's 132,451 shares of stock, he asked Tiffany President Louis de B. Moore for a voice in management, demanded that the store catch up with "modern merchandising" (one of his suggestions: sell Tiffany's silver polish in chain stores...
...fifth cleaning establishment. Service Station Attendant Edward Szczepanski, 17, told police: "My girl has expensive tastes . . . My conscience would bother me after the holdups, and sometimes I thought I would surrender; then I'd want to take her out, and I'd hold up another cleaning store...