Word: skeletonization
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...conservative evening paper like the New York Sun, failed, sold it to the Daily News but kept the Associated Press franchise by bringing out 500 copies daily of a sheetlet called the Commercial Chronicle. (Last week he had forgotten its name.) Around the A. P. membership and a skeleton staff, Publisher Thomason built his tabloid Daily Times. So friendly were he and the Tribune that he made his paper an exact copy of the Tribune's lusty Manhattan tabloid brother, the Daily News...
...decision was made at the meeting to keep the Central Square Office of the Bureau open during April and May, and also to keep a skeleton organization under the supervision of the present members at work during the summer months. This is an innovation in the work of the Bureau and should considerably increase the assistance it is able to render to the needy people of Cambridge. The exact plan of the summer organization is still tentative, but will be confirmed and announced in the near future...
Immediately after the conclusion of the Assembly a skeleton group of organizers will meet to commence the preliminaries for the 1933 Model League session. While it is too early as yet to predict with any degree of certainty where this session will be held, Harvard is being prominently suggested by many students as a very desirable locality. The existence of a strong nucleus of experienced men at the University next year will undoubtedly be an important factors in influencing the final choice...
...International Style thinks of building in terms of space enclosed as opposed to mass. Walls no longer support the house; they are curtains enclosing its skeleton...
...recapture Hawaii from a hypothetical enemy. As the zero hour approached for Admiral Richard Henry Leigh's Blue force to cross a deadline and commence hostilities, the defensive Blacks, surmising that the attack's spearhead would aim at Honolulu's Pearl Harbor naval base, sent skeleton columns of soldiers, sailors and marines to patrol the coast of Oahu and guard against a surprise landing. Actually mobilized to defend Hawaii were 20,000 men, 17 sub marines, four light mine layers, two mine sweepers and 45 aircraft under Major General Briant Harris Wells, commander of the Army...