Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intelligent habit of self-examination. On this and other occasions Mr. Merritt and his fellows have displayed the rarest of academic virtues: the recognition of flaws in one's own armor. If every department in the College were to do the same, weaknesses, archaicisms, and inconsistencies would be fewer than they...
...stampeded into using newfangled methods. When he takes his players to the big city, they play horse& -buggy basketball. There is no furious running or frantic shooting. Calmly and deliberately, they throttle the game down ; the Aggies seldom score many points and allow the opposition even fewer. Other coaches call it "slow death...
...Fewer nightclubs were open, and some were working hard to stay open. The last two nights that Comic George Jessel played the Copacabana, the place threw away its minimum charge. The Latin Quarter advertised "a complete evening's entertainment for $5." Growled the headwaiter at the Latin Quarter: "The goose is here but she ain't layin' any more...
...occasion blinked, and sometime even wept. They find that the better short-story artists around here just won't turn in their stuff to be printed, preferring to assail the most invincible national markets. The quality of the magazines goes down, subscribers and prestige begin to dwindle, and still fewer writers care to contribute. And all because of individualism...
Early ambulation ("an ugly phrase for a beautiful idea") means that patients are out of bed as soon as possible, perhaps one or two days after the operation. Result: less pneumonia, better healing of muscles, fewer "sick-man complexes"; patients can relieve bowels and bladder normally, eat better, sleep better, feel better...