Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Columbia which was his monument. Columbia had fewer than 4,000 students when Butler became its president; today it tops 30,000, and its faculty is among the nation's four best. He once told the alumni (paraphrasing "Bloody Mary") that if they opened him they would find "Columbia" written on his heart. Two years ago, he reluctantly surrendered the presidency he had held for 44 years.* Last week Nicholas Murray Butler, 85, and blind for the past year, died in the shadow of the great campus he had built on Morningside Heights...
...night after night." Some journalists have been overtaken by a creeping lethargy: it is hard to hustle for scoops when editions will sell out without them. "I keep feeling guilty," said a circulation manager. "Instead of talking people into buying more papers, I'm talking them into taking fewer. It isn't a proper way to do business...
...basic mistake of Signature's editors was to ignore better material just in order to have a drama issue. There is certainly a need for a magazine that will print the best student writing both at Harvard and at Radcliffe, but the more poor stuff is published, the fewer writers will contribute. It is up to Signature itself to break the vicious circle by campaigning for the material, and its new contest is an important step. But the editors' obvious fear of being called neurotic or esoteric, coupled with their desire to print trash on the assumption that it will...
...cinemaddicts will stand up to cheer these tender graces, but fewer will want to miss those of a Fairbanks find: a 23-year-old, Tahiti-born "Tyrolean blonde" named Paule Croset. Her performance (as a Dutch farm girl) is as clear as a brook, and audiences may well object that the camera does not linger longer on her cool, inviting beauty...
Ever since he was a young psychiatry professor at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Wertham had brooded over the fact that Negroes even if they could afford a psychiatrist' could seldom get one. (Of some 4,500 U.S. psychiatrists, fewer than 25 are Negroes.) With the enthusiastic help of Negro friends, Dr. Wertham and his colleagues found a home for a clinic in the basement of Harlem's St. Philip's Episcopal Church, and opened it to all comers. Fee per treatment (if the patient...