Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More Oarsmen, Fewer Coxes...
Said Bolles yesterday, "On the average this year we have more oarsmen out and fewer coxes than anytime since I've been here...
...Heaviest instalment buying was in biggish cities; small cities have less, metropolises like New York and Chicago (where fewer families own automobiles) still less. Farm families did least instalment buying...
...part about the whole situation is that if more men had dates for the game, the location of the average pair of pasteboards for you and your date would be much better, because the fewer the number of singles applied for, the better the doubles will be. The H.A.A. always forms a cheering section in the center part of the stands, consisting of all the 3,000-odd contribution book holders who want but one ticket for the game...
...brightest ray of hope is the observation that "as marks get worse, there is a definite progression towards fewer children." It means that the Princeton man--if he has any hope of survival--faces a serious future. He must forget his clubs, his tweeds, his weekends, especially his New York (whose results, after all, don't count in the official survey) and concentrate on four years of hard study. The higher ranking the student, the greater chance for children. Let the midnight oil flow, let the pages of Aristotle turn, and the Princeton boy will grow to manhood and become...