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1  Norwegians and Germans owned stores.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  He owns about half the town, besides the store.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
3  He owns a lot of mortgages, and he gambles in farm-lands.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
4  Harry's dad owns most of the Bon Ton, but it's Harry who runs it and gives it the pep.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
5  Pete Rustad owns this farm, and he told me he saw a small covey of chickens in the west forty, last week.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
6  Nat Hicks was socially acceptable; he had been here for years, and owned his shop; but this person was merely Nat's workman, and the town's principle of perfect democracy was not meant to be applied indiscriminately.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
7  It proved that what he wanted was a house exactly like Sam Clark's, which was exactly like every third new house in every town in the country: a square, yellow stolidity with immaculate clapboards, a broad screened porch, tidy grass-plots, and concrete walks; a house resembling the mind of a merchant who votes the party ticket straight and goes to church once a month and owns a good car.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV