Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student to get the most out of the Tutorial System, because of the regular course requirements. Tutorial work should take the place of course works and credits be given for the same. The tutor's report should be considered in granting degrees. Perhaps only 12 or even fewer courses should be required. Seniors could then be free to actually gain the most the Tutorial System has to offer. First Report, Class...
Therefore it is a clear if paradoxical fact that, although there are fewer members of the Communist Party of Russia than there are Communists in Germany, yet the whole number of Russians who vote* must and do vote Communist, whether or not they profess Communism. Of course the number of Russians who do profess Communism, and in that sense only are "Communists," is many times greater than the number of Germans who vote the Communist ticket...
...became at last "liberé" (fantastic name for those wretches who survive imprisonment, but, exiled for years to come, must report periodically to the Guiana authorities). Meanwhile there was the listless scramble for barest necessities of existence. Few as these were after prison fare, the possibilities of work were fewer still, since employers preferred gangs of supervised prisoners available at minimum wage. Michel, marveled at his long-lost joie de vivre, remembered his ambitions, and the oath that never would he degenerate to a contemptible liberé, crouched on his empty barrow awaiting a stray commission. But there...
...tiny stitches; the crosswise direction giving great strength to the finished cloth. An inch of blanket cloth will be traversed by 16 to 20 rows of stitching, each stitch about one-fourteenth of an inch long. Weaving ("under and over") has been dispensed with, which means less capital, fewer workers, big savings. All-wool unfinished broadcloth and blankets have been made and according to optimistic reports cannot be differentiated from their loom-woven relatives. The finer fabrics, requiring more rows of shorter stitches to the inch, are still a problem. Toot-Light. Changing the signals automatically at regular time intervals...
Newspapers throughout the land are becoming fewer and fewer. Many shrewd publishers believe that ultimately there will be only one newspaper in each city of less than 1,000,000 population, but that it will be no less progressive for lack of direct competition. Rather, it will reach out to get the last possible reader in its city and in the smaller surrounding towns...