Word: store
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possible means, legal or illegal. . . treason to Panther Bande punishable by death." The document was signed in blood. Werner lost no time putting the new constitution into effect: he promptly killed the boy who had tattled. Thus cleansed, the gang went into action. They held up a cigar store, tried to kill a bank messenger (whose briefcase proved to be empty) and stuck up a small Munich hotel. Their take was next to nothing...
Although brandy is customarily drunk in elaborately small amounts, distillers (with a realistic appraisal of the demand) store it in vats often 32 ft. high and 39 ft. in diameter. A certain amount of evaporation occurs in these reservoirs, but not to the extent of 2,000 gallons a month or so, thought the owners of the Hazebrouck distillery in northern France. Yet their vats were guarded by special police, surrounded by high walls, and there seemed no opportunity for theft. Was there a leak? The Hazebrouck distillers drained off their largest vat. Peering into the darkness, workmen spied...
...them and it is here that the Senior Fellows deserve the most applause. The time they spent, the painstaking way they worked, the care they showed for every relevant fact they could unearth, and the anxiousness they showed to amass the views of faculty members--these show the immense store of fairness and rationality that the Corporation brought to this most vexed issue. Compared to the fury and irrationality which marked the investigation's usual impact, the Corporation's quiet and thorough procedure deserves high tribute...
Henry Ford never threw anything away. Fair Lane's store will not only enrich future biographies of Ford; it is also a great hoard of source material on the history of the auto age. Archivists have still studied only a tiny part of the collection...
This was one place in sinful Harlem where God was in command: "The saints, arriving, had rented this abandoned store and taken out the fixtures; had painted the walls and built a pulpit, moved in a piano and camp chairs, and bought the biggest Bible they could find. They put white curtains in the show window, and painted across this window, TEMPLE OF THE FIRE BAPTIZED. Then they were ready to do the Lord's work...