Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Baptized in 1929 by the Protestant Episcopal Church: 3,338 fewer persons than...
Confirmed in 1929 by the Protestant Episcopal Church: 2,027 fewer persons than...
...fewer and fewer people read Greek, translations of the Greek classics become more valuable. This latest Englishing of what is generally considered Homer's better half should win the Odyssey many new readers, should remind many old acquaintances to read it again. Professor Emeritus (Harvard) George Herbert Palmer's translation of the wandering of Odysseus is in prose, but faithful to the letter and spirit of Homer's rolling pentameters...
Pleased was Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde to be able to report to President Hoover a "gradual improvement" in husbandry. Farm incomes ($12,527,000,000) were higher than in the last three years. The decline in land values had been retarded. Fewer husbandmen were quitting their acres for the city. Some 1929 farm facts...
Livestock. "Current year has been profitable. . . . Fewer cattle and hogs slaughtered . . . higher prices...