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Pilpul, these discussions are called—empty, nonsensical arguments over minute points of the Talmud that have no relation at all to the world.
Chpt 2.6

minute = insignificant
He chose a minute aspect of the answer and asked who had dealt with it in an altogether different way, and Danny answered.
Chpt 2.7 *

minute = minor
The meeting had started pleasantly enough with the usual reading of the minutes and committee reports, when Davey Cantor burst into the room, looking as though he was crying, and shouted! breathlessly that someone had just told him President Roosevelt was dead.
Chpt 2.11 *

minutes = formal notes

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We threw the ball around a few more minutes, and then I went up to home plate for some batting practice.†
Chpt 1.1 *
We want a few minutes.†
Chpt 1.1
"We want five minutes," the rabbi insisted.†
Chpt 1.1
"Five minutes," the rabbi said.†
Chpt 1.1
Five minutes.†
Chpt 1.1
Just five minutes, now.†
Chpt 1.1
They want a five-minute warm-up.†
Chpt 1.1
"We have the field for five minutes," he said.†
Chpt 1.1
The five minutes were apparently over, but the players were making no move to abandon the field.†
Chpt 1.1
It's five minutes," he said.†
Chpt 1.1
"The five minutes are up," Mr. Galanter said.†
Chpt 1.1
The players threw the ball around for another minute or two, and then slowly came off the field.†
Chpt 1.1
We threw a ball around for a minute.†
Chpt 1.1
We'll be going in in a minute, boy.†
Chpt 1.2
"I passed him a few minutes ago," the first doctor said.†
Chpt 1.2
A nurse will be in in a minute.†
Chpt 1.2
After a few minutes of looking at him, I realized he had completely forgotten about me, and I turned my head slowly away from him and to the right.†
Chpt 1.2
I'm between schools, so I've only got a few minutes.†
Chpt 1.3
I lay back and after a few minutes of thinking about Mr. Galanter I fell asleep.†
Chpt 1.3
I've been standing here about fifteen minutes waiting for you to wake up.†
Chpt 1.3
My father came in a few minutes after supper, looking pale and worn.†
Chpt 1.3
Now, wait a minute—†
Chpt 1.3
MY FATHER CAME IN a few minutes later, looking worse than he had the day before.†
Chpt 1.4
Every few minutes, a nurse would go behind the curtain, stay there for a while, then come out and walk back up the aisle.†
Chpt 1.4
There were only a few minutes of sunlight left, and I found myself wondering why my father hadn't yet come to see me.†
Chpt 1.4
I've been waiting here ten minutes for you to wake up.†
Chpt 2.7
One minute he's a tyrant, the next minute he's kind and gentle.†
Chpt 2.7
One minute he's a tyrant, the next minute he's kind and gentle.†
Chpt 2.7
One minute he's hard and angry, the next minute he's soft and gentle.†
Chpt 2.7
One minute he's hard and angry, the next minute he's soft and gentle.†
Chpt 2.7
WHEN I GOT BACK to school the next morning, I found I had become a hero, and during the fifteen-minute morning recess my friends, and even some boys I did not know, all crowded around me, wanting to know how I was and telling me what a great game I had played.†
Chpt 2.8
I listened to them for a few minutes longer, and then I realized that though they knew so much more material than I did, once a passage was quoted and briefly explained, I was on almost equal footing with them.†
Chpt 2.8
My father came in a few minutes later and joined me.†
Chpt 2.9
I hung up the phone and stood still for a minute, trying to calm myself.†
Chpt 2.9
He was very quiet during the first few minutes of the Talmud battle, and though I tried to make up for his silence by increasing the volume of my own enthusiasm, I could see that Reb Saunders was becoming more and more annoyed by his son's lack of participation.†
Chpt 2.10
Dark circles had formed around his eyes, and sometimes at the kitchen table I would see him begin to cry suddenly, and he would get up and walk out of the room, then return a few minutes later and resume eating.†
Chpt 2.12
Once my father came into my room at ten minutes to one, found me memorizing the section on river flukes from my biology textbook, asked me if I was trying to do four years of college all at once, and told me to go to bed right away.†
Chpt 3.13
He would have a glass of tea, come into my room and chat with me for a few minutes, telling me where he had been and what he had done that night, then he would remind me I didn't have to do four years of college all at once, I should go to bed soon, and he would go into his study to prepare for the classes he would be teaching the next day.†
Chpt 3.13
Sometime between eleven and twelve every night, he would return from wherever he had been, have a glass of tea, spend a few minutes with me in my room, then go into his study.†
Chpt 3.13
Most often these dialogues took only a few minutes, but by the end of September there had already been two occasions when they had lasted more than three quarters of an hour.†
Chpt 3.14
My father had begun to look almost skeletal as a result of his activities, and I dreaded the nights he came wearily home, drank his glass of tea, spent some minutes with me in my room, looking hollow-eyed and not really listening to what I told him, and then went into his study.†
Chpt 3.14
I had been alone before, but the knowledge that my father would return from his meetings and spend a few minutes with me had made the loneliness endurable.†
Chpt 3.14
"I want to talk with you a minute," Rav Gershenson said.†
Chpt 3.14
Danny cannot think one minute beyond the moment he will have to tell his father he does not wish to take his place.†
Chpt 3.17
I met one of my classmates and we stopped to talk for a few minutes; then I went on alone, turning finally into Danny's street.†
Chpt 3.18

Definitions:

(1) (minute as in: minute size)
small, exceptionally small, or insignificant
(2) (minute as in: minute description)
detailed (including even small considerations); and/or careful (done with care)
(3) (minutes as in: keep the minutes)
a written record of what happened at a meeting
(4) (meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus)
Much more commonly, minute and minutes refer to a period of time lasting 60 seconds.

Less commonly, they refer to a measurement of angle where 60 minutes make up a single degree, and where a right angle has 90 degrees and a circle has 360 degrees.

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