Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When not making pictures, cinema stars make headlines by marrying and divorcing, wooing and suing. When not making laws, members of Congress keep their names and causes before the public by Investigations. This summer these extracurricular activities will be fewer than usual because, in an election year, Congressmen want to be home mending fences. Also because of elections, investigations will be specially designed to provide useful political color. By last week three investigations of 1938 loomed largest...
...University, Brooklyn), New York's Governor Herbert H. Lehman (Syracuse), Wisconsin's U. S. Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr. (University of Wisconsin), Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. (Temple). But this year's commencements produced a remarkable political echo. Honorary degrees went to no fewer than three of President Roosevelt's opponents in last year's battle over the Supreme Court-Michigan's Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (Union College), Montana's Senator Burton K. Wheeler (American University, Washington, D. C.) and Wyoming's Senator Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney (Columbia...
...this day not only wear their top hats but are allowed to don colored waistcoats and wear flowers in their lapels, to furl their umbrellas as only the members of "Pop" (the exclusive Eton Society) may ordinarily do. But the sophisticated observer last week noticed that there were fewer students about than ever before. Every young Etonian who can, nowadays flees Eton for the Fourth...
...with disciplinary relations between student and dean. Furthermore, he pointed out that its main purpose was to take undergraduate action, not to reflect mere undergraduate opinion. His conception of the Council's function was supported by its activities during that year. In comparison, President Keppel's Council, making fewer investigations yet contributing one that may prove the best of all in recent times--namely, the budgetary report, has nonetheless been marking time, while gathering up its skirts of policy...
...examined, it appeared that a person born under Libra ("The Scales"), seventh of the zodiac's twelve signs, should have musical ability. Libra's children are those born from September 24 to October 23. Looking up the birth dates of 1,498 musicians, Dr. Farnsworth found that fewer were born under this sign than under any other except Scorpio. Libra and Scorpio were in fact tied for last place as musician-makers. Thus in picking a musical sign the astrologists could have made ten better choices than Libra, could not have made a worse...