Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Century's barbershop and secretary, its train-to-city phone, shower bath, and doors that open at a touch were already standard equipment on several other "name" trains. Its new dining car seated fewer passengers than the old two-car arrangement, and placed diners with their backs to the scenery. The new roomettes still forced occupants to protrude into the corridor when pulling down...
...Gimo had a list of specific changes demanded by the new austerity: fewer passenger cars and more buses; fewer attendants and servants for public officials; less meat, tobacco, wine, candies and superstitious use of joss paper; cheaper weddings, funerals and gifts on holidays; a boycott of dance halls and gambling; heavy taxes on luxuries; severe penalties for government offices which steal water...
...both marriages and divorces dropped off from 1946's record highs, the Federal Security Agency reported. Marriages were down to 1,992,354, from 1946's 2,291,045. There were approximately 25% fewer divorces...
...used to do a big mail-order business in pictures, painting just what the customers asked for, but now that her prices have skyrocketed she gets fewer orders. Her early work was framed in old mirror and picture frames that friends found for her in their attics. "But now they take them without frames. I don't like that. It's like sending my children out with ragged dresses on 'em. I like to see 'em dressed before they...
...Cathedra. In Wimbledon, England, the Rev. W. A. Gibson noted that there were fewer buttons in the collection plate than there used to be, but came to a bitter conclusion: it was not morality that had increased, but the price of buttons...