Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Young (31) Harold Wilson, who was once (at 21) the youngest don at Oxford, succeeded Cripps as president of the Board of Trade. The new Minister of Fuel & Power, Hugh Gaitskell, is, like Cripps, a product of Winchester and New College. Last week Gaitskell advocated fewer baths as a means of saving coal. "Personally," he had told an audience in Hastings, "I have never had a great many baths myself, and I can assure those who are in the habit of having a great many that it does not make a great difference to their health if they have less...
Concurring was Robert B. Watson '37, Associate Dean of he College who directly supervises the College's 43 undergraduate activities and points with alarm to the existing inadequate facilities for these groups." 'There are fewer and fewer available meeting rooms, for example,' Watson commented, "and more and more student activities. It must become widely realized at once that the situation now is not what is was ten years ago when extra-curricular interest did not run so high...
Such a provision would have political drawbacks. The only real beneficiaries would be fewer than two million-married taxpayers with a taxable income of more than $5,000 a year. And they would have to be content with less tax relief, percentagewise, than in the tax bill passed last July by Congress but vetoed by President Truman...
...American Way." The U.S. zone has far fewer Americans than the Soviet zone has Russians. Most of the Americans, though not the most important ones, are downy-cheeked G.I.s in their late teens. They have no real notion of why !hey are there. At Passau in Bavaria one of their officers told me: "We aren't making any impression on the Germans that I can see. There are only 300 Americans in this whole area of some 700,000 Germans. Our number is being further cut. Very few of us are interested in Germany. Few of us know...
Although many games were played on a frozen field, and the players were no padding except on their elbows an knees, there were fewer injuries than there are today. One reason is that the teams were lighter. Woodman, for example, who played left tackle for three years in the Eighties, weighed only 175, and was considered easily heavy enough for that position...