Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holland, gone through the most harrowing political, social and economic disorders in modern times and emerged the scar-covered bully-boy of the world. The Germany of Kaiser Wilhelm's day differs from the Germany of Adolf Hitler's day in that it had 18,778,491 fewer people and 50,545 fewer square miles in Europe. Aggrandizer Hitler's Germany does not to date possess Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany's African and Asiatic colonies, but since these accounted for less than 5% of pre-War Germany's export and import trade, they...
...magnificent operating record of no passenger fatalities since January 1936. High-powered Charles Rheinstrom pepped up American's sales technique, invented airline "scrip," since adopted by the major domestic lines. In advertising, C.R. Smith and his two first lieutenants were equally progressive. One of their headlines: "Fewer Husbandless Nights...
...upperclass body as a whole went to fewer lectures than the Freshmen who are taking the same courses this year, according to the poll returns. They report that in History I they went to only 55% of the lectures as compared with the Freshman figures...
...Fewer are adoptions of "illegitimate"*children today, for social workers try to persuade unmarried mothers not to give up their babies...
Last week Professor Tyler announced results of his test, found that students thought about as fuzzily as he had expected. Only 42% could make sense of the literary passages and even fewer had any notion of what Poet Stevens was driving at; 75% believed that the poem was an argument for temperance. Similarly, the students as a group scored only 47% on literary information, 42% on scientific information. They did better (57%) on a section of the test in which their memory for facts counted. Examinees were found to have many superstitions: 70% believed that daughters resemble their fathers more...