Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bright statues began a fantastically deliberate ballet through the squares of the chessboard. The pawns stepped forward with a delicate terror; the rooks swept furiously, in straight lines, across the spaces, and the bishops slanted with slow dexterity between the stiff irregular maneuvers of the knights. Soon there were fewer dancers in the ballet; two sinister queens pranced among them with precise cruelty. The music to which they moved grew faint and there were long periods in which the figurines stood still and the two men stared at the board with a contemplative fury. Finally, after 32 moves, Capablanca made...
Instead of trying to telescope material into the fewer lectures possible under this plan, most of the instructors have indicated their preference for leaving certain portions of the courses in which interpretation is possibly less vital than in others to the students themselves, aided only by the assigned readings...
...characteristic of Mr. Baker that, while other crime commissioners were talking last week about sharper juries, harsher laws, fewer pardons and more citizen vigilantes with sawed-off shotguns, he was trying to put criminals into philosophical perspective, where he saw them as sick people whom a humanitarian society ought to cure. A humanitarian philosopher, a man so keen and kindly that he cannot bear to read Mark Twain because that heartless author put his character at such unfair disadvantages?could such a man be nominated to govern a nation? It would not be unheard of, even...
Some 15 years ago a small Italian, Gallo his last name and Fortune his first, took a ragged opera company foundering on the Pacific Coast, called it his own. Few had heard the name Gallo, fewer still had faith in his venture. But the San Carlo Company prospered, played a week here, three nights there in U. S. cities that had no opera, made a name for the impresario who could give popular-priced performances and succeed. Last week the San Carlo Company began a two-weeks' engagement in Manhattan, not in the old Century Theatre that had been...
...University; which, as has been said before of the extra-curricular activities, has a whip for every man's hobby. There are few who have not at least one such hobby-even if it be nothing more than a small spark struck by some chance reading; there are fewer still who cannot find among the courses given here some encouragement in the pursuit. To aid in the pursuit has been one of the tasks of the Vagabond; from the observation on the Alumni Bulletin it has not been an altogether thankless...