Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of la cometa, more people than usual were praying in Mexico City churches, but they lighted fewer candles at the altars. Explained sad-eyed Maria Rodríguez, as she stood in the queue at the corn mill on Niño Perdido Avenue: "When artificial light burns while a comet is in the skies, newborn babies will be marked, on their bodies if male and on their faces if female." The other women nodded soberly. "Even if all the lights are out," said Juana Sanchez, "one hundred children will be born this year with harelips, two prominent...
When a porteño goes to the stadium he wears his oldest clothes, yells himself hoarse, insults opposition rooters, throws oranges, occasionally sets fire to the stands if things go too badly. Few women (and fewer ladies) go to the games...
...Louis' Betting Commissioner James J. Carroll, who had quoted odds of 10 to 1 against Truman, lost more than $100,000. His worst-beating came from the bets he covered at 50 to 1 that Dewey would get fewer than 200 electoral votes...
...swinging right." In France, Socialists were already telling themselves that it was "a triumph for the international third force," that it would diminish the chances of General Charles de Gaulle returning to power (see FOREIGN NEWS). British Socialists were more cautious, but they thought it meant fewer strings attached to ECA aid. Undeterred by the downfall of other prophets, one prominent Laborite gleefully predicted: "This assures a Labor victory...
University officials point out that the Dining Halls have fewer ptomaine outbreaks than any restaurant in the Boston area. Ptomaine, however, is not a relative thing. One epidemic is one too many. It seems little more than ironic that the Dining Halls should point with pride while 1000 undergraduates suffer from dysentery...