Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...facetious advice may be unnecessary, since many a doctor has come to the conclusion that, no matter what else it may do to you, smoking does not injure the heart of a healthy person. According to the New York State Journal of Medicine, laboratory rats injected with nicotine showed fewer heart lesions over a period of six months than did rats injected with plain saltwater...
Since he stopped pretending to be a Republican (in 1934) and began running on a straight Progressive ticket, Wisconsin's ambitious young Governor Philip Fox La Follette has (1934, 1936) squeezed through with fewer votes than the total for his Democratic and Republican opponents. This year, while Governor La Follette was trying to hatch a national third party to coalesce liberals against reactionaries, Wisconsin's two-time Democratic State Treasurer Robert K. Henry hatched a coalition of Wisconsin's conservatives against Governor La Follette. An object lesson to all hopeful coalitionists was the result of Wisconsin...
...should fight propaganda with propaganda. Observer Kostelanetz verified the activity of totalitarian shortwavers, but pricked the balloon of their importance by reporting that short-wave listening in South America, even more than in the U. S., is an exacting hobby, available to relatively few people, of interest to even fewer. Said he: "In all of Brazil [pop. 47,795,000] there are only 420,000 radio sets, only 15% of them equipped for shortwave. Some 40% of the Brazilians are illiterate and illiterates are not likely to be skilled short-wave dialers...
...minutes, before each of the first 45 trials. Then temperatures were raised from 99.5 to 103 or 104.5° F. No radiation was given this group for the remaining 55 trials. The second group of rats received no radiation at all. Results: 1) the heated rats averaged one-third fewer errors per trial than the unirradiated rats; 2) the difference was consistent through the first 75 trials for each group, showing that the effects of radiation on the irradiated group lingered on for 30 trials after treatment was discontinued; 3) the irradiated rats lost their tails, gained weight more slowly...
...most Orientals as to most Europeans a chrysanthemum is only a chrysanthemum. But there are two outstanding exceptions. In Japan, it has been the "Sacred Flower" for more than 1,000 years. No Japanese except royalty may use the full or 16-petal chrysanthemum device, but with fewer petals the chrysanthemum figures in countless Japanese designs, supposedly lucky. In Italy, however, to present a living man with a chrysanthemum is to wish him bad luck, for chrysanthemums are considered ideal flowers for graves...