Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never able to find the vein again. Who found it? Moore, of course. And he also found the wheelbarrow, the dead partner's skull and the well-rusted murder weapon, a Winchester rifle. To prove his point, he displayed a battered old wheelbarrow in a Moscow general store in 1936. Newspapermen sent stories and pictures of the wheelbarrow all over the country, and then Moore mailed out a blizzard of clippings...
...tavern keepers and package store men are wary of selling their goods to any but dottards, and if they think a prospective buyer does not measure up to the age on his draft card, they may demand further proof of the card's age and character. Some dealers have even bought the Freshman registers, which contain pictures and birth dates of all students...
...flows from his childhood in Damascus. He was brought up in a parochial school with a mere 66 hours a week of classes and later worked for a leading import export firm of the city. He came to the United States to go to college, but instead opened a store in South Carolina and began adding English to his fluent French, Arabic and Turkish. After serving in the First World War, he went back to Damascus, and later returned to Boston with his family. Twenty-five years ago yesterday, he moved to Harvard Square, near the Law School...
...business. Brought up in a house where he never remembered his father even raising his voice against him, he has transferred this gentle manner to his family and friends. Every Christmas he receives hundreds of cards from men who have for three years bought late meals at the store. And he has rescued at least one beleaguered Arabic student around exam time, with his translations of the classical Arabic from the Koran...
...back! But that's impossible. I've been living in Boston for forty-two years. Besides," he said, glancing over the crowded store where Raphael was struggling to wait on everyone, "besides, business is pretty fair, pretty fair...