Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the U. S. Office of Education in Washington estimated elementary school enrollment this fall at 20,206,000 pupils-1,000,000 fewer than at the 1930 peak. The downhill trend whose start accompanied a rapid fall in the birth rate during Depression is expected to continue at least until...
...come to Harvard (you are men now, you know) who haven't already developed a liking for some form of sport and fewer leave who haven't become adopt at more sports than when they entered. Whether you like sports or not, some form of them is compulsory here, but with almost a dozen sports to pick form, there is no hardship...
...Unlike the President's original proposal, this bill would not permanently enlarge the Court, for as judges over 75 retired they could not be replaced unless the Court was then left with fewer than nine members...
This year, also, there will be fewer country theatres. In 1936, Equity counted 55. This summer season's total will fall about ten behind, but on the average the survivors will be considerably healthier than their predecessors of previous seasons. Instead of depending on brand new shows whose authors are willing to waive royalties on the chance of a producer's seeing and liking their work, typical 1937 rural playhouse will stick to tried & true, love & laughter shows from bygone seasons. More than one summer stock company will offer Let Us Be Gay, Candlelight, The Second Man, Meet...
...first time may also remember a twinge of loneliness at being abandoned, even briefly, in what may have seemed at the moment like a large waste of water. What would it feel like to fall off a ship in mid-Pacific? Few men have done such a thing, and fewer have lived to tell the tale, but many must have imagined themselves in such a terrifying predicament. With as much calm authority as though he had fallen overboard himself, Herbert Clyde Lewis tells just what it feels like. His hair-raising little tour de force is the more effective...