Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wasn't quite as much a victory as it seemed. By the time the lawyers finish with its loopholes, it will probably cover at least 200,000 fewer employees than the old Fair Labor Standards Act. The old bill affected workers "necessary" to production of goods in interstate commerce; the new one applies to the approximate onethird of the U.S. working force which is "directly essential" to production in interstate commerce. Specifically excluded are farm laborers, newspaper carriers, small telephone, telegraph, newspaper and logging operations; employees of most local stores and laundries...
...effect in narrowing the cost-income gap because enrollments are falling. In Harvard's case the enrollment dip simply reflects the University's decision two years ago to slash war-swollen figures. Many other colleges, however, would like to continue with a bigger students body but can't because fewer and fewer men today have enough money to pay the expensive bill...
...independent staffs. Atkinson, to avoid the unpleasantness of wholesale firing, reduced the size of the city staff by waiting for city employees to retire or leave. The vacated posts were then abolished. Most recent statistics on City employment put the Cambridge staff at about 2000 employers--approximately 1000 fewer than were drawing pay checks...
During the meeting, club president Nina Emerson '50 outlined a revised point system for the association, which will enable the members to earn awards for fewer hours of activities. The new form will allow five points for each voluntary hour of participation, including club sports. Ten points will be given for honorable mention in a sport, 20 for a numeral, and 30 for an "R." Seven hundred fifty points are still required to win a 'Cliffe blazer and 500 for a junior award...
...Bruce Barton (Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn) knows just how he sells products and ideas: "Say it simply, say it over & over, say it in one-syllable words." He rates the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm and the Gettysburg Address as triumphs of simplicity and brevity: each contains fewer than 500 words, mostly of one and two syllables. Last week Adman Barton was getting ready to turn out a new weekly column of personal and social comment for Hearst's King Features. It will be written in no more than 500 words, mostly of one and two syllables...