Sentences with phrase «old boxes of»

I was going through some old boxes of letters and found this clipping from a Child magazine from 1992.

I suppose it's natural to think about those old boxes of sermons upstairs.

I tore through old boxes of odds and ends I'd hoarded over the years.

The BTI greenhouse even has an old box of Hormodin in the back its storage closet.

But in plenty of other respects, this humorless science - fiction cautionary tale feels like a relic from an earlier era, pulled out of a dusty old box of zip disks and 56k modems.

Digging into an old box of mixed tapes leads one direction — toward nostalgia, and most likely into the tricky land of exes.

So naturally, I fired it up and started picking through the old box of games that hadn't been played in a while.

Not exact matches

Fast - forward six decades and one of the remaining posters was discovered by a bookseller who bought a box of old books (where the poster was hidden) at auction.

And while some older people may discount Mulcahy's strategy of using a chat box on her website as impersonal, she sees it as a way to communicate with customers on their time table — maybe at 11 p.m. when they happen to need a tutor or want to book an appointment.

When Target acquired the leases of 124 old Zellers locations, it inherited a higher - cost store structure that it can do little about: outdated floor plans that run over multiple levels are no match for sleek, single - entrance big - box stores designed for ultra-efficiency.

According to the company, its X1 smart set - top boxes are part of the reason, since they have more Internet - related features than the old style and appeal to more users.

In an industry constantly starved for raw material, the 70 - year - old author's work stands out as an untapped resource — a fact that's now been recognized by a new Canadian company created for the purpose of turning the British writer's bestsellers into box - office hits.

For example Walmart disrupted retail through it's big box superstores, but these are typically still just derivatives of the old model since you can't change the entire infrastructure of an industry.

An entrepreneurial 13 - year - old sold 117 boxes of Girl Scout cookies in two hours after setting up shop outside of a local medical marijuana clinic.

After dropping out of York University, an 18 - year - old Cohl and a friend opened a strip club in Ottawa called Pandora's Box.

«We will have moved away from the old style boxes, like growth, value, large cap and so forth, and see these replaced by a series of risk factor - related products, like interest - rate sensitive products,» said Celia Dallas, chief investment strategist at investment consultant Cambridge Associates.

The wallpaper clad room is a teenage boy's dream, with Cheerio boxes, a bicycle that plays Sade's «Smooth Operator» when you pedal, a toilet full of Almond Joy candies and an old iMac filled with Van Halen music.

«When you were a 16 - year - old, you took a box of candy on your first date with a girl and gave it either to her parents or to her,» he says.

Caring for aging boomers will be a big business, and there's an opportunity to create a subscription business whereby kids and grandkids send older relatives a surprise box of goodies to let them know people are thinking of them.

Each listing includes the item (s) to be delivered, the number of miles from point A to point B, and the price to be paid, explains David Hater, a 50 - year - old retired Army officer who's delivered more than 400 gigs for Roadie, earning anywhere from $ 8 for a local delivery to $ 400 for «delivering a few extra boxes and making a stop or two along the way» on interstate trips.

Who better to go to for fun and helpful sales advice than the Scouts» top cookie seller, Katie Francis, a 13 - year - old sales wunderkind whose feat of selling 22,200 boxes of cookies this year beat her own world record?

For the millions of us who stared at Windows XP desktops for hours every day for work and school, there's a certain nostalgia now for the old Windows user interface, before the flat design ethos of Windows 8 squashed everything into neat little boxes that are multicoloured without being that, well, colourful.

The new box will now be able to stream so - called 4K resolution, which refers to screens with two times the vertical resolution and twice the horizontal resolution of older high - definition TVs.

In most marketing situations this helps the client break out of the age - old train of industry thought, and look at the problem from an out of the box mindset.

Dorsey's out - of - the - box thinking also applies to his management style: At the company's San Francisco headquarters, the 36 - year - old CEO can often be found working on his iPad at one of the company's «open collaboration» tables.

The warehouse at Carma Labs in Franklin, Wisconsin is filled with boxes of the 78 - year - old company's signature product, Carmex lip balm.

A Chinese gambit to assume that Chinese robots will be allowed to replace other robots, or that companies taxed on dollar assets held abroad, or financial flows, or what have you, is a marginal movement of thought to merely another corner of the same old old box.

The old alliance between sensible LIBERTARIANISM and SOCIAL CONSERVATISM can't hold in the face of the vanishing middle class, the birth dearth combined with increasing longevity, the depoliticizing challenges of the 21st competitive marketplace, the irresponsibility of our techno - meritocracy, our inability to keep Locke in the Locke box on issues having to do with families and our erotic lives, and the connection between increasing individualism and growing dependency on the state summed up in the phrase «single mom.»

In mid-December, six - year - old Isaiah Martinez brought a box of candy canes to his public elementary school.

Although, strictly speaking, the outlet box contains no literal fire, I will choose concepts that communicate to the comprehension level of a three - year - old.

Made in Cambodia by disadvantaged artisans of brass recycled from old bombs, and hanging on an 18 ″ brass cable chain, it arrives in a 100 % recycled jewelry box — perfect for gift - giving!

Or even one of those pet store hamster boxes with breathing holes like the one I bought in 1980 with my best friend, Tracy, because two seven - year - olds co-owning a hamster is always a good idea.

I talk with a 70 - year - old Red Rock Sioux, her hair white and braided, surrounded by cardboard boxes of letters, discarded magazines and papers.

And in this wealthy, sophisticated nation, hundreds of older men and women now spend their nights in Tokyo's railroad stations or street corridors, curled up in cardboard boxes — just as they do in New York or cities in other nations.

One minute you're 17 years old, driving your parents» car with Jimmy Eat World on full blast, next thing you know you've got a mortgage and you're on your way to Walgreens for your sixth box of diapers this week.

My parents had saved the few Barbies who survived our childhood, and the box of old clothes was pulled out of storage.

Several old upside - down wood chairs, and one upside - down wood rocker were jammed into a pile of burlap bags, boxes and an odd assortment of gardening tools, newspaper - wrapped unknowns and you - name - its that I didn't recognize.

I was in the cellar working on cleaning up grandma's box of old wooden butter molds, wooden spoons, and potato mashers.

In a box at the back of my closet, a few last things remain: odds and ends sent on to me in Washington by my mother, for the most part, as she came across them here and there in long - unopened moving cartons stacked in the basement or old shoe boxes hidden for years on the shelves behind the winter coats.

No furniture involved, but every morning for a few weeks I would take a box or suitcase from my old home on the edge of the city to my new one quite near my work.

In a mosque in the village of Kasunjatan, near ancient Banten, where the old mosque of the sultans of Banten still stands, some hair of the Prophet's head is kept in a little box which is placed on a small bedstead which in turn rests on a larger bedstead.

He boxes up truth, turns to leave a few prayers, inconspicuous as seeds, that someone old might read in the folds of a missal, someone young might turn over in her still - holy fingerpainting hands, near that warm corner on the east side of the parish where children congregate to play «This is the church; this is the steeple; open the doors and where are the people?»

The argument that we have here a transcendent sovereign Son of man conception must turn entirely upon two points, that the Messiah here is «kept many ages» (R. H. Charles, Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament II, 616, n. 26, finds this sufficient to identify the figure with the Son of man of I Enoch [G. H. Box]-RRB-.

I have two boxes of old letters and other paperwork out in the garage, and we only recently discovered an unopened birthday card from my grandparents, from 1983.

He found the usual stuff — old dresses, chests and boxes of junk.

One month into our married life, going through boxes in our living room, I found an old journal of his, stashed with handwritten notes on the intricacies of ice - cream making, and I thought again how much this man is just my match.

At Douglas Machine Inc., the company ditched the suggestion box of old in favor of a more dynamic employee - driven improvement program.

Also, note to self — perhaps I should buy Pop Secret popcorn flavors by the cart full because a variety of boxes would be great to slip into oldest son's college care packages since he has a dorm microwave.

Some of the bars in this box had that discolored too old chocolate thing happening.

My oldest doesn't eat gluten or dairy so this was perfect and I had a box of King Arthur flour chocolate cake mix that was gluten free.