Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis issued fewer building permits (802) last year than any U.S. city of 500,000 population or over. The Veterans' Welfare Association, which has 14,000 applications for homes on file, said: "We place one family and placate...
Ohio was the best proof of that. Though both Harold Stassen and Robert Taft immediately ran out their victory flags, the result of last week's Ohio primary was a flat standoff. Stassen had picked up only nine of 23 contested delegates-three fewer than he had said he would. Despite Taft's confident prediction that he would lose but one delegate, he had lost nine in his own home state...
Uncomfortable Man. Taft himself, stumping the state with the vigor of a Crusader, spoke bluntly and honestly, as always. He also betrayed a personal sense of outrage and irritation. But even so he did not stir audiences. At times fewer than two or three dozen people collected to hear him speak from courthouse steps; he seemed uncomfortable as he stepped forward to shake hands. When he spoke at Cadiz, a knot of roughneck strip miners booed, and called "Throw...
During the thirties, a complicated "course reduction" system was in effect, by which a man who wrote a thesis needed fewer than the customary 16 courses to graduate. But the workings of the system proved so complex that at the Student Council's suggestion, the current thesis for honors was established in its stead. By 1941, however, the Faculty voted to abolish this course, but a series of wartime rulings has succeeded in keeping the system alive. Now, with the "duration" rules swept from the books, the thesis for honors course will perish unless a new vote...
...General Motors announced that it would lay off some 200,000 workers-more than half its total force-for at least a week, because of steel and pig-iron shortages. The motor industry, Ward's Automotive Reports said, would make about 265,000 fewer cars and trucks this quarter than expected...