Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Middle East have always been of vital concern to an oil-conscious U. S. Although American oil reserves are immense, comprising thirty percent of the known supplies, the U. S. refines over sixty percent of the world's petroleum and cannot maintain this uneven balance indefinitely. With fewer new fields coming in each year, the oil market will shift away from the United States in two decades unless the on companies are permitted to exploit undeveloped fields in Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia...
...grumbles were on the record, the House passed the reapportionment bill, 318 to 6. Most Tories, Churchill included, abstained. From the practical Tory point of view, the bill was not all bad. In its major clauses the bill would redraw constituency boundaries in such a way as to ensure fewer seats for Laborites, more seats for Tories...
Showman Gonzalez was not alone in the international claim-staking act. The Argentines were in a dispute with the British over Antarctic lands and the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas). Argentine Task Force I, five ships with no fewer than five admirals aboard, had pushed south to visit the outpost on Deception Island. It made quite a show of power, especially since the Argentine hut on Deception is only 80 feet from the British base. But when the Argentines learned that the British had sent the 8,000-ton cruiser Nigeria from South Africa to the same waters, they cried...
...multiplying college facilities until they can care for every high school graduate who doesn't want to go to work, the commission is not doing the colleges or the country any favor. . . . How the commission hopes to multiply the sheepskins and have fewer sheep, I cannot guess. . . . This program threatens to suffocate us with tides of mediocrity...
Harvard is no exception. President Eliot may reform, concentration may battle distribution, General Education may arise from an academic whirlpool--but for the student, learning remains a process of absorption for 16 or fewer weeks and disgorging of knowledge for three hours at the conclusion of said process...