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After a tough struggle with its mountain of statistics, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics formally brought forth the minutest statistic of the week: from mid-June to mid-July, the cost of living for city workers went down 0.8%. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins emerged from the Cabinet morgue to find this droplet impressive...
...critics were excited not so much by Conductor Shaw's musicianship as by the way he held the minutest control over his singers. Gesticulating with feverish intensity, Conductor Shaw suggested a cross between Arturo Toscanini and an overwrought college cheerleader. By the time he had finished, a hand-picked audience agreed that his Collegiate Chorale was one of the finest...
...correspondent has offered a grand price of a carton of cigarettes to the service man who writes in a short story of the "minutest thing that happened since I joined the services...
This is the wrong season by the calendar but the spirit which has given rise in the past to many a spring riot seems to be abroad in an abbreviated form. Witness Gerald D. Rosenbloom '44, who returned from a date recently to find the minutest remains of a 25-pound cake of ice disappearing before his eyes...
Clinging "flowing" to the around peaks, positions that avoiding did not valleys, fall quickly, attacking constantly, his tough little Army soon cleared Greece of all but dead and captive Italians, carried the war into Albania. Deprived of its great strategist, Greece still has his plans worked out in minutest detail. Future success will depend on the ability of Commander in Chief Field Marshal Alexander Papagos to execute them without the lashing vitality of Banker Little at John the behind...