Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctrine of forced credits for work of an academic nature done in the armed forces. Surveys have shown that a significant number of undergraduates is being affected adversely by the ruling, but few have expressed their disapproval by any more concrete step than commenting on a poll; even fewer by making the effort to file a petition with the Dean's office for relaxation of the ukase...
Faced like other publishers with increased costs and lowered profit margins, Mike Cowles decided two months ago that Look could get along with fewer hobbies. In a major shakeup, Editor Harlan Logan's pet projects-and 75 staffers, including the entire crew of Look books-were dropped...
...masses. Looking back at a once-scorned Europe, special arbiters plumped for aristocratic living, and the nation clambered to imitate. The race kept up for a while, petered out just before World War I, and shifted then suddenly and violently to short, dresses, simpler dinner-parties, and fewer chaperons. During the twenties, manners became big business for the Posts and Dixes, and America's attention shifted from the age-old knife-fork-spoon controversy to the compatibility of good breeding and petting...
...Robert Allen was starting an all-winter job: watching whooping cranes. At Aransas Wildlife Refuge, Texas, he would study their daily lives, their feeding habits, what made them happy or unhappy. He wanted to know everything about them, for the whoopers are on the edge of extinction. Fewer than 100 remain, and the flock is shrinking fast...
...most grandiose literary project of a generation, introduced to the U.S. public more than a dozen years ago (TIME, June 5, 1933), Men of Good Will has been admired from a safe distance by many, praised to the skies by a few, actually read in its entirety by still fewer. It stands as a monument to the almost incredible industry and endurance of Novelist Romains and his readers. A vast, inchoate panorama, as broad as all Europe and 25 years long, its net effect is more nearly that of a giant notebook than of a novel...