Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...epidemic of 500,000 cases of influenza is raging in Japan. So said despatches featured last week by the U. S. press. No, there is no epidemic. Instead, cases of pulmonary diseases are "slightly fewer than normal" in Japan this winter. So read later despatches ignored by most U. S. editors...
...last eight or ten years it now should take 140 men to supply the needs of the country where 100 could do so. Instead of that and in spite of our having 20,000,000 more people, the needs of the country are fully supplied with 7% fewer workers than we needed...
...charming orphanage, with small cottages instead of wards and corridors, with married couples, when possible, to act as father and mother to children who have none of their own. This gift was accepted like the other, with avidity, but the Children's Home Society expressed its gratitude with fewer insulting epithets...
...thoroughly endorsed by the Faculty; that the backbone of every endowed educational institution is its long-suffering alumni body, and that the graduates are therefore entitled to consideration; that we are lacking in generosity not only to our own graduates but to those of Yale in providing them with fewer seats for the Cambridge games than the Yale authorities provide our graduates for Bowl games; that a larger Stadium would not attract a larger "public" crowd; and finally that the cost of enlarging the Stadium could easily be paid for out of the excess profits within a period...
...system of having more conferences with candidates and fewer tryouts on the speaker's platform will be in use in the new competitions it was announced by E. M. Rowe 1L., Debating team coach...