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Statisticians control officers are a new breed; a product of this war. As the Air Forces moved overseas into every nook and cranny of the four corners, a new method had to be devised to keep G.H.Q. informed of the conditions in every field. To meet this need the scientists devised the statisticians control officer and the A.A.F. Stat School...
...Post's dingy third-floor offices, she works in a nook fenced off by burlap screens. At first mail was skimpy and other Post employes wrote letters on order, for her to answer. Now she gets anywhere from ten to 100-odd letters a day, from readers willing to risk a furious answer to get their problems (anonymously) into print...
Mention of laundry, that bane of every WAVE's existence, brings to mind thoughts of a unique institution here at Briggs Hall, the Alcove. The Alcove is no secluded nook, as its name might imply, where one may while away spare moments in intimate conversation with a friend. It is, rather, the equivalent of the corner drugstore, the village post-office, or somebody's backyard. It is a quaint combination of laundry, shower-room, and telephone booth that none but a Navy mind could have dreamed up. Here of a sunny afternoon, any day after four o'clock, the following...
Leading a posse into every nook and cranny of Dunster House yesterday in a secret room-by-room investigation, Eugene C. Benyas '43, Dunster music librarian, sought meticulously for several albums of Victoria records discovered missing from the library record cases...
...couldn't quite see all of Martinelli as he was engaged in his gab-fest with the high muckymuck, so I looked around for a more satisfactory vantage point. Besides, I hate standing up. I finally saw a little nook half-hidden almong some pieces of scenery, and I figured I could sit in it and see the whole opera. I maneuvered myself through the throng and crawled into the opening that led into my secluded box seat. Just as I put my foot down on the last step the lights flared up on the stage and I heard...