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Go ask anybody who remembers A&P, Gimbels, Digital Equipment, Kodak, or Borders, fer chrissakes.

It might make sense to get a job that pays better, like checking groceries at the A&P.

At the next party, photographers swarmed around Johnson and her friend, A&P heiress Juliet Hartford.

"My c-a-p," timidly said the "new fellow," casting troubled looks round him.

"'You a-p-p-e-a-r-e-d—'" Mark stuck fast on the word that had floored Matthew, and helplessly shook his head.

The A. P, was not one of those fellows who affect a ridiculous hesitation when given an invitation.

Drawing a low chair to his mother's side, he opened his book, and began to slowly spell the first word, "A-P-E."

It means, my dear boy, that before you stands the first full-sized working model of the Hawkins A. P. motor, patent applied for!