Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...without the dire consequences predicted by Ellenborough, gibbet and gallows were prescribed for fewer & fewer crimes. When murder was crossed off the list last week, only three capital crimes remained: high treason in time of war, piracy with violence, arson in dockyards...
...regularly into his Bible before going to bed and first thing in the morning. His hobby and main relaxation is his lively family. Between fishing trips with his sons, horseback riding with his daughters, near-monthly birthday parties for one Warren or another, he has time for few friends, fewer intimates...
...conversationalist: "Sometimes after dinner with a celebrated group of brilliant minds, the talk in the salon over the coffee is about the high price of butter and eggs. Such a subject does not lend itself to brilliance!" But anxiety focuses on more than carrots and conversation. In the survey, fewer than one-third of all Europeans believe that there exists "a fairly good chance" to avoid a major war within the next 25 to 30 years. Asked further: "Which side [U.S. or Russia] do you think is gaining ground today and which losing ground?" most Europeans, casting up rough accounts...
...Paris Racing Club play to a 3 to 3 tie. "To hell with politics!" shouted French Dramatist Jean de Beer, one of the watchers. "This is the kind of thing we live for." Crowds at the Auteuil race track were not so elegant as before the war (definitely fewer grey toppers), but just as large...
Western Europeans nursed no great hope that U.N. would be able to maintain peace. What else was there? One other idea that rank-&-file Europeans turned over in their minds now was Western European Union. So far, to the average man, the words were little more than a label; fewer people had heard the phrase than had heard, for example, of U.N. or the Marshall Plan. But Western Europe liked the sound of Western Union...