Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Machinist predicted that U.S. citizens would wear fewer political campaign buttons in 1948. Reason: the cost of manufacture is now 2? per button as compared...
Earlier in the conference, Chile's Benjamin Cohen, Assistant Secretary General in Charge of Public Information, had said the same, with fewer dots and more dash. He lashed out at newspapermen for "distorting" U.N. news and giving a "fragmentary picture," put the blame on a "crisis-conflict" type of journalism. Secretary General Trygve Lie was gentler. "I wouldn't go as far as that," said Lie, diplomatically. "It depends a good deal on the individual paper and country...
Hits & Pieces. Experiment made more noise than news: the Experimental Theatre gave few signs of being experimental and fewer still of being theater. And Broadway had a more cosmopolitan look than at any time since the '303 - welcoming (not always too warmly) troupes and troupers from England, Eire, Palestine, France...
...first book, anonymously and at his own expense, when he was 21. The Notebooks of Andre Walter (1891) was the thinly disguised story of his own neurotic love for his cousin Emmanuele. Novelist-Critic Charles Huysmans promptly labeled it "a product of hideous vulgarities." Few people read it and fewer still bought it; but it admitted Gide to Paris' literary set. It brought him the acquaintance of Maeterlinck, D'Annunzio, Whistler, Gauguin, Rodin and Mallarme...
...worst licks. The examination should include a search for damaged organs, and a psychological study of the patient's worries and hopes. Then the doctor should recommend "antiaging" devices. For instance, diet: at 60 most men need more protein, calcium, iron than men of 30, but fewer fats and carbohydrates...