Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listened with foreboding to the results of a survey released by New York City's Duane Jones Co. Of 1,580 TV owners answering a survey, 92.4% were listening to radio less than before they owned TV sets; 80.9% were going to movies less frequently; 58.9% were reading fewer books; 48.5% read magazines less often; 23.9% were even skimping on newspapers...
...requisite books this fact does not insure that the girls are adequately supplied, because our girlish system allows a few unscrupulous, students to foul up this lifeline of education. The honor system as applied to the library, invariably breaks down when the pressure is on. Radcliffe would have fewer library complaints if it introduced a rational system to central its books instead of an emotional one. Nancy Rabi, Radcliffe...
...Federal Alcohol Tax Unit announced that fewer than 3% of New York's 20,000 bars water their whiskey...
...prices had not been out of line, that there had also been "profits for the customer." He asked the Senators to step outside. There, he had parked a 1929 Buick and a 1948 Chevrolet. The Chevvy, faster, more powerful and a bigger & better car, actually sold for fewer dollars than the Buick...
...been handicapped by one of those illogical conflicts common among the logical French. Manufacturers have refused to go into full-scale production until the government increases its program budget ($11,000 for all of 1948). The government refuses to telecast more programs until more people have sets. Result: fewer than 5,000 sets in all France. Programs include first-run movies, interviews, operas and Parisian nightclub shows (uncensored). Throughout the rest of Western Europe, television is still in its infancy. The Netherlands has an experimental transmitter at Eindhoven; Germany plans one in the British zone at Hamburg...