Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...took part. The "tug-of-war" is quite a modern institution, but is very nearly the same as a Grecian trial of strength, which appears to have been arranged in two ways, in one of which the only difference between it and the present "tug-of-war" is that fewer persons took part in it, and that they stood up instead of partly sitting as they do now. In the other the rope was passed over an upper branch of a tree, or through a hole in a high post, and the competitors took hold of the rope, with their...
...Leahy's "Drama" still appears in fragmentary form. The selection in this number is inferior to that in the last, and a little ponderous. Mr. Leahy, although his command of figures and similes is perhaps his strongest point, could introduce fewer without harming his verse. These selections are interesting and in many parts exceedingly beautiful, but they suffer from isolation...
Citizens of Cambridge, lend us your ears! - "A Cambridge correspondent of the Critic actually insinuates that the atmosphere of art in the classic surburb is about as bleak as a Dekota blizzard. The studios are few and the visitors fewer, and the pictures in the magazines, we are told, are about all the Cantabs have to talk about. As for music, this correspondent says the real appreciative lover of music doesn't abound there, and the occasional Symphony concerts in Sanders Theatre are attended only for form's sake. It's lucky for this correspondent that hazing has gone...
...arbitrary questions upon ten single points which could by no possibility adequately cover the ground gone over in the course during the half-year, and whose answers could be but a very poor criterion of the student's knowledge of the course at best; these papers have contained either fewer questions, but of a comprehensive character such as would allow the student an opportunity to show whether he could write intelligently upon the subject, or else there have been many more questions in order that the student might have an option in his choice of subjects...
...think more discretion might be observed in the manner of employing such an amount of money. If this million and a half had been given to some of the struggling universities in the West or with it a new one had been founded out there where the advantages are fewer it strikes us that more real good might have been accomplished. As it is, within a few miles of the place in which the new Clark University is to be founded, stand two of the oldest and largest universities in the country; and within a surrounding territory not larger than...