Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small is no reason why these men should receive no more than sympathy. Those who need help need it just as badly as if they were legion. The very fact of their fewness means that the needs of these marginal students can be met by an agency with fewer resources than the United States government. The University itself is the best source of aid to its marginal students because only at the local level can the amount of assistance be made compatible with the degree of need...
...known to walk out on the ice and personally "tighten the necktie" of a referee he considered offensive, spent most of last winter recovering from a shrapnel wound he got at Caen. Without the constant goad of Smythe's furious presence, the gentle Leafs finished the season with fewer man-minutes in the penalty box than any other team in the league, ruefully called themselves the "Lady Byng team...
...bystander enters the hall and tarries a bit, the illusion is fortified by the cluster around the lecturer's desk at the end of the hour's immersion. More and more undergraduates give sign of regarding fewer and fewer professors as either mummies or policemen...
...first 143 who entered in 1849, only .17 were graduated. Today City College, with 27,000 students, † has proportionately fewer casualties but still rates as a college with exacting entrance exams and high academic standards. Its engineering and business courses are topnotch...
...helping the veteran find himself, it's about time somebody rehabilitated the folks back home. We think there is quite a lot of fighting still to be done before we and our children can have a future which measures up to our yardstick. We think a church with fewer members AWOL offers a solution. We know that while the church may not have all the answers, it has some of them...