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minute

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The Women of Brewster Place

Now we need someone else to take the minutes.
p. 143..6 (definition 1)

minutes = formal notes

I'll take the minutes for you.
p. 143..8 (definition 1) *

But the glass splinters found some minute, untouched place—as they always did—and tore the heart and let the whistling in.
p. 149..9 (definition 2) *

minute = small

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Mattie and Butch walked in silence for the next five minutes.†
p. 12..9 (definition 3)

"Bring a man clear out of his way to cut three times as much cane as he needed for hisself and then want to double-lime him back home before he gets a minute's rest or them wild herbs he really came all this way fo'."†
p. 15..4 (definition 3)

She remembered passing that old white woman just minutes before.†
p. 30..6 (definition 3)

"Look, I'm only going out for a few minutes.†
p. 41..1 (definition 3)

The willow-green sundress, only ten minutes old on the short chestnut woman, clung to a body that had finished a close second in its race with time.†
p. 56..7 (definition 3)

"Lord," Mattie grumbled, "she ain't bigger than a minute, so it shouldn't take more than that to get ready."†
p. 62..2 (definition 3)

That would give her at least five minutes' grace to straighten up the apartment.†
p. 77..2 (definition 3)

It reached up and lined the inside of her nostrils so that she inhaled his presence almost every minute of her life.†
p. 92..4 (definition 3)

Each time she chided herself for this unreasonable foolishness, but within the next few minutes some strange force still drove her back.†
p. 96..4 (definition 3)

And how was she expected to keep on top of them every minute?†
p. 111..6 (definition 3)

Her attentions to the baby bought her a few more minutes of Cora Lee's time.†
p. 120..2 (definition 3)

Mattie and Kiswana spoke a few minutes about the new tenants' association getting the city to fence off the alley, and then the group moved on.†
p. 124..1 (definition 3)

Laughter and another series of monologues about Betina's bad-natured exit followed for the next five minutes.†
p. 143..7 (definition 3)

She refused to let the woman avoid her eyes, enjoying every minute of her cringing embarrassment.†
p. 157..4 (definition 3)

"You won't last ten minutes there alone, so why don't you just sit down and stop it."†
p. 167..3 (definition 3)

And I never got a minute's sleep.†
p. 181..9 (definition 3)

Wait a minute.†
p. 187..5 (definition 3) *

Definitions:

(1) (minutes as in: keep the minutes)
a written record of what happened at a meeting

(2) (minute as in: minute size)
small, exceptionally small, or insignificant

(3) (meaning too common or 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.