Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...nominations are made in this manner, the president, treasurer, clerk, and eight directors to be selected by ballot at the annual meeting, provided that at least one hundred members are present and voting. The ten persons so selected by ballot, or, if no additional nominations are made, or if fewer than one hundred members are present and voting at the annual meeting, the nominees of the stockholders, to be elected, the president by a vote of the board of directors, the ten other persons by a vote of the board of stockholders. After 1902, new stockholders to fill vacancies caused...
...exploited together, by private capitalists for great personal gain, they will be more powerful than the most drastic law that can be framed. The Committee of Fifty tried to secure an experimental bill in Massachusetts to throw all liquor dealing and traffic into a monopoly so that fewer attractions to drink would be offered, and it was defeated by a very narrow margin. The Gottenberg system, which has produced results in Norway far ahead of any other systems elsewhere, has now been started in England by private companies with great success and will probably be the ultimate solution...
...system was adopted under which an effort was made to return to simpler methods. There were fewer plays, fewer formations, fewer signals, shorter hours for practice, and a determined effort was made to get rid of the injuries by analysis of the causes which led up to them and eliminating the dangerous methods. In pursuance of this policy there was no playing after dark, no playing on frozen ground, and care was taken to watch the individual players and not play them when they were becoming fatigued. In the first four years the result of this policy was only partially...
...Newell crews appear to have the advantage, as they have had more consistent coaching and fewer changes in their orders. They show more life and get their hands away more quickly than the Weld Freshmen...
...crews appear to be fairly evenly matched. The Weld have had fewer changes made during the season than the Newell crews and consequently row better together. Also there has been more material to pick from at the Weld, although the first Newell has more experienced oarsmen than the first Weld. The chief fault of the first Weld is its slow, lifeless stroke, which causes the men to hang at the full reach and to lack leg-drive. The first Newell has more snap, but is inclined to slump and to wash out at the finish...