Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...City who hoped to send a telegram had to wait at least an hour because the whole facilities of both Postal Telegraph and Western Union were being used by Father Coughlin's responsive listeners. By the next day, when the time came for a vote on recommittal, no fewer than 100,000 telegrams had piled up on Senators' desks in Washington and quantities were still pouring in. Twenty thousand went to New York's Royal S. Copeland, who was going to vote against the bill anyway. Ten thousand went to New York's Robert Wagner...
...prolific writer, Purcell wrote no fewer than fifty dramatic works, chiefly incidental music for plays. Among these compositions is one called the "Faery Queen," which was intended as accompaniment to Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream...
...Roslyn's fourth-grade children ranged from 7 to 16 in age. Now fewer children are retarded. Instead of keeping backward pupils with younger children, Roslyn's schools promote them, give them coaching in their weak subjects...
Physical and intellectual benefits would result from fewer laboratory hours. This reduction might be effected by a slight decrease of the laboratory of each course, by slightly less ambitious objectives for the ground to be covered by experiments. It might more feasibly be effected by a reduction in the number of laboratory courses required of the Chemistry concentrator, particularly of the honors man, who must now take eight courses in Chemistry or related fields, most of which require long laboratory hours. The very slight lowering in the standards of the field would be an investment yielding more than equivalent returns...
...Conant had advocated less education in this country--fewer students in schools of all levels and kinds, or the expenditure of less money on teaching for any and all purposes--the Union might have been justified in its accusation that he has suggested "a ploughing under of human brains." But he did no such thing; and his leadership in the Harvard plan for the wider study of American History, in the establishment of the National Scholarships, and in the development of two new professional schools within the University is sufficient evidence that he is not "thinking in terms...