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Details of this "unique" job are a military secret, but, in broad outline, it is a mass-production method for building cargo ships that should dwarf World War I's Hog Island. Higgins' swelling backlog includes a minimum 200 Liberty ships-the biggest single order the Maritime Commission ever placed...
...good deal of the picture leering suggestively at Paulette's back and taking snapshots of it while she is in the shower. She alternately cowers and bristles at all this, but the end sees her foiling the heavies and winning her man. Happily, this, is accomplished with a minimum of seriousness, and the proceedings are frothy but funny...
Before beginning their dietary ordeal, the participants ate an extra quantity of vitamin A in the form of halibut liver oil with their regular meal. During the test, the fare contained lass than a tenth of what is usually considered the minimum vitamin requirement, and only one-fiftieth the amount recommended by the Committee on Food and Nutrition of the National Research Council...
Four courses are the minimum requirement for concentration plus two related courses, as the Departmental pamphlet outlines in detail. Once in the field the concentrator will select a special subject for specific work. At the end of his Senior year he will take a general examination in either Geology or Geography and a special exam in his specific section...
...confused mysticism in the last act. "Our Town" is primarily an attempt to strip the non-essentials from life. The Repertory Players have been trying to strip the non-essentials from the theatre, and the residue seems particularly appropriate to their present subject. Because they are used to a minimum of scenery, they manage very easily with Wilder's bare stage. Because they are accustomed to a small audience (the Play-house seats only 100), they can be more familiar with it, even to the point where the stage manager remarks, "That's the end of the first...