Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While?}. Most distinguished member of 1911, in the consensus of the class, was Cartoonist Gluyas Williams, who shone on the Harvard Lampoon as an undergraduate. For First Marshal, the Class of 1911 elected former President Herbert Jaques of the U. S. Golf Association. Few of 1911 got rich, fewer still Author Tunis judged to have won "genuine distinction" (TIME, Sept. 14). Up for scrutiny this year stand 536 Harvardmen of the Class of 1912. The proud 1912 alumni plan the "greatest and most elaborate" 25th reunion yet staged in Cambridge, chafe to outdo Author Tunis' rumpled Class...
Although Harvard's minor sports could continue to live on their small pittance for perhaps another year, they can not do so without losing much of their value to the undergraduates through poorer coaching and fewer opportunities to practise. If these sports were taken off their present inter-collegiate basis and made into intra-mural recreation, then the present budget would be sufficient, although not as large as it should be. No matter what course is adopted, funds are still needed, and must be raised sooner or later...
...Dictionary is handsomer than its British sister, far freer and less formal in style. The first is owing to Publisher Charles Scribner Sr., the second to the Dictionary's original editor, Historian Allen Johnson, both of whom died in time to fit into their proper volumes. It contains fewer biographies (13,633) by more contributors (2,243). Originally Editor Johnson decided to set a limit of 10,000 words to each biography, but that was exceeded in five instances: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Woodrow Wilson...
...each item compared to the usual 10% in mail-order houses. He discovered and concentrated on lines with the greatest profit margin: furniture, stoves, tires, men's clothes. And he developed Spiegel's two cardinal policies: 1) sell everything on credit; 2) sell more goods to fewer customers...
...appear to lie with the "Monthly". It points out, however, that the existing publications are not holding up the mirror to all phases of Harvard life. It suggests that experimentation with controversial subjects might blast away time-honored indifference. The "Guardian", on the other hand, appears to face fewer, but by no means minor difficulties. If either or both can avoid a misdated, shot-gun marriage with older publications, if either or both can overcome the manifold difficulties, and particularly the inertia of students, they deserve a long and happy life...