Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...audience of 100 crowded the small courtroom above the Hanover firehouse to witness the proceedings, but fewer than a dozen Dartmouth students were present...
There was a far smaller number of entrants than were expected, and considerably fewer than the number which competed in the House Championships two weeks ago. "It looks like the House tournament was the big one this year," commented Intramural Director Adolph W. Samborski...
...smile. By dint of withholding and pay-as-you-go plans, the government usually had his tax money by March anyhow. And this year, because of tax law changes in 1948, he could experience a temporary and spurious elation-of approximately 50 million taxpayers (5,000,000 fewer than last year's record total), 80% would get rebates...
...fourth, and it has the same lightness and speed, the same clairvoyance at catching ripples of feminine feeling, as her first, At Mrs. Lippincote's. Since there is nothing very busty or blustery about all this, Mrs. Taylor will probably have to be content with a lot fewer readers than she deserves...
...presumption that fewer meals will be served is not, according toe Dining Hall officials, correct. They estimate, in fact, that under a contract system the average number of meals per week each man will eat will be 17 and on half--not 16. This figure is based on a pre-war contract system where out of 100 men, 55 ate 21 meals each week, 35 ate 14, and 10 ate 10. (The editorial in question erroneously stated that 10 percent would eat 7 meals, at a charge of $10, instead of 10 meals). The total number of meals...