Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...medical costs now vexing the profession. Dr. Morgan said he supposed "that the true difficulty may lie in the elaborate and expensive diagnostic procedures which the public has come to demand, as well as the luxurious nursing provisions which have come to be regarded as essential." He believes fewer complaints on medical costs have come from the poor than from...
This general tendency toward a higher scholastic level is the result of a definite attitude which has manifested itself during the past few years. It is a well known fact that all of the extra curricular activities have had fewer and fewer students show an interest in them. Certain fields have felt this more definitely than others, with the managerial competitions showing the largest decrease in numbers of candidates...
National opinion is simply the sum of the opinions of individuals-with a fuller under-standing between individuals there will be fewer national differences...
...moral instincts" to the People in one breath, and in the next had complained that respect for law was fading from their sensibilities. The President had complained of increased crime but had not perceived that the drastic Jones (Five & Ten) Act, by sending up liquor prices and making convictions fewer, would cause the liquor trade to finance the underworld more handsomely than ever...
...Workers to be gathered together in one all-inclusive organization. Thus far, however, One Big Union for the workers has been a soap-bubble blown from the soapbox. Indeed, it is the Radical's enemy, the Capitalist, who has recently been unifying, and to an extraordinary degree. Fewer and bigger banks? fewer and bigger department stores? fewer and bigger soaps?it is in an Age of Merger that Industry lives today. The One Big Union may eventually arrive. But the One Big Business appears more definitely...