Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maritimes, housewives were buying more medium, fewer large eggs. Men's tailors were busy turning worn trouser cuffs and shirt collars. In Montreal, a top ski-suit designer found customers buying for price. Said he: "I'm doing a lot of Ford business, but my Rolls-Royce trade is dropping...
Come All Ye Faithful. Though fewer pictures are in production, some things are just like the good old lavish days. At Paramount, Cecil B. DeMille is deep in his $3,000,000 Technicolored Samson and Delilah. At MGM, the huge set with swimming pool is kept at a tropically humid temperature for the swimming sequences of the new Technicolored Esther Williams picture (with dance numbers by Busby Berkeley...
There were fewer interruptions for laughter now, and a telephone ring at that moment suggested my time was up. But I held firm. When Miss Cam returned from the call, I hurriedly mentioned her copies of Henry Adams, one of her predecessors in medieval history. What did she think of his pot shots at Harvard? "Oh, I've really not been here long enough to say. He was an extraordinarily clever man, though." Well--what about hobbies? The Last Resort. "I like walking and cycling; I do wish I had brought over my bicycle. And I also do some water...
...Fewer People, More Food
Died. Alfred Robert McIntyre, 62, president of the century-old book publishing firm, Little, Brown & Co.; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Boston. Mclntyre believed in a policy of "fewer and better books," helped develop such authors as James Hilton, A. J. Cronin, John P. Marquand...