Word: shop
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...books, with only two or three exceptions, have been printed in the Press shop at Randall Hall. In point of number of new publications issued each year, the Press is one of the largest university presses in the country...
...glad that Italy did not make war on Greece any sooner. Professor of classical archeology at Princeton, Dr. Shear was in charge of a grandiose excavation project which has gone on at Athens for ten years. When bombs fell on Peiraeus and elsewhere around Athens, Dr. Shear shut up shop abruptly. But his work was nearly complete anyway...
...struck Rio, its stores were all called magasins, catered to the self-conscious trade. And as in Manhattan when John Wanamaker moved there in 1896, Rio shoppers in 1929 rarely saw price tags; they were accustomed to haggling. Jim called his company Lojas Americanas be cause loja means shop in Portuguese. He opened it on June 1, 1929. Opening-hour gawkers timidly approached the unfamiliar narrow counters, laden with cheap trinkets, household goods, gewgaws. Prices were marked, and signs said "Look What One Milreis Will Buy." The gawkers did not buy. Then, one and a half hours after opening...
...They own houses, raise families. Professionally, they are tied in a union as exclusive as a London club, the American Society of Cinematographers, which, until its recent application for an A. F. of L. charter, had no truck with national affiliations. It costs $100 to join, holds a closed-shop contract with all major studios...
...practice of the season with their long slender cross-country boards carefully waxed with Skare for the occasion, but the captain, Del Ames '42 was detained in the north woods by good snow conditions, and last year's captain, Tom Winship '42, got bogged down in a Boston ski shop...