Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hexed Barns. The college year had begun (with fewer veterans on the campus); the World Series was on. Department stores showed the new fall styles (cloche hats, swathed hips, and shoes in the style of Louis XV). First graders brought home cutout paper pumpkins...
Terming the plaque proposal of the Saltonstall group "totally unsatisfactory," the Alumni Committee advocating the activities center declared in its statement. "The Saltonstall Committee has attempted to resolve conflicting proposals by compromise: a plan which--intended to offend few--will please fewer...
...vortex of world trade, the great exchange clearinghouse. The U.S., which replaced Britain in world power, was no clearinghouse; it consistently sold more abroad than it bought. Western Europe, no longer able to produce enough for its own needs, had to buy more & more from the U.S. and had fewer & fewer dollars to do it with. Unchecked, this imbalance will reduce Western Europe to poverty and Communism...
KENTUCKY: Application for original registration must be made IN PERSON at any time 50 days before the election. Absent voters already registered may apply for ballots on forms supplied by the clerk of the county court of the place of residence at any time not fewer than 10 days before an election. Ballots must be notarized and returned to the clerk of the county court before the polls close on election day. All veterans must register for the 1948 elections...
...thousand fewer veterans will be taking College courses this year than in 1947. Last year there were 3,409 ex G.I.'s as undergraduates. The Class of 1952 will include only 150 veterans, as compared to 950 in the Class...