Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more teams rather than fewer teams--I always have been--but right now 150-pound football is out." Spreading the H.A.A.'s cards across the top of his desk in the Union, William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, yesterday gave the official answers to questions that since last September have been filtering into the CRIMSON office...
...Teachers' Crisis (MARCH OF TIME) puts the pointer on one of the biggest U.S. problems-education. By narrative, charts and acted episodes, the film dramatizes the fact that, with public school enrollments bigger than ever before, and constantly growing, the U.S. has fewer public-school teachers than it had in 1939. Of these teachers many are pitifully ill-trained "emergency" amateurs. (The film shows the too common spectacle of a teacher unable to work a problem she has given students.) Still others are psychologically unfit to teach (the film shows a stupid teacher calling a pupil stupid...
...letters stood for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. It was dedicated to the proposition that "since wars begin in the minds of men . . . the peace must therefore be founded . . . upon the intellectual and moral solidarity of mankind." Few at its Philadelphia conclave disagreed with that proposition. Fewer still were sure they knew what it meant...
...write good comedy lines." This certainty about his limitations descends, like a black hole, to the bottom of his brain. It allows the very basis of his thinking a cold, immediate access to the facts of living. Certainly few entertainers are so comfortlessly close to reality as Allen; still fewer are crowded so hard by sanity. Often his wit appears to be a cushion against hard fact. More often it seems an act of reprisal. He hurls it, rich with cyanic rancors, in the face of sham wherever he sees it. Of a male celebrity who strode into church...
When athletic participation is deducted from the activities scored, the poll reveals that fewer than one-third of the class is engaged in anything besides their studies...