Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fewer Injuries than Today...
Stress upon international exchange followed the introduction of information, attributed to the New York Times, by delegate John Silverstone '49 to the effect that 40 percent fewer European students are studying in the United States this year than last while a correspondingly larger number over last year study in Russia...
...fashionable theory that glandular disturbances cause fatness, Dr. Bruch told the New York Academy of Medicine, is mostly tommyrot. In a recent study of heavyweights, it was found that fewer than one in 200 had a glandular ailment...
...dreary. From that day there was no more gasoline for pleasure driving. On Wednesday, too, railway fares increased twopence to threepence on the shilling. Other Wednesday black marks: coal prices increased as much as six shillings a ton; the new clothing coupon period started, but now there were fewer coupons; under the Exchange Control Act, officials began opening parcels and letters suspected of containing notes or valuables. There was only one bright spot: Britons were at last permitted to turn on their heaters to combat the October evening chill...
Seeds for the Future. Gustavo now spends his time editing the History, handling the many orders ($1,400 a month) for pictures from the archives. Sometimes Muralist Diego Rivera comes to study revolutionary faces. Pictures that go into the files today, says Gustavo, show "fewer hangings and battles and more construction projects and dedications. . . . We are coming to years when the fruits of the Mexican Revolution are being gathered, maybe not exactly the same fruits the revolutionists thought they were planting, but fruits that Mexicans should see and remember, for they will furnish the seeds of future harvests...