Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obstacle to full development of the cotton industry. This is a stock answer when any country finds its standard of living unsatisfactory because its productivity per man has decreased. Then the committee tackled the real problem: how can prewar mills, with obsolescent spindles, be converted into modern plants needing fewer but higher paid workers...
...cause of this anti-Judkins feeling is FCCommissioner Clifford Judkins Durr. He fathered the recent FCC report on radio's behavior (TIME, March 18), insisting that radio's business was FCC's business. He has continually demanded better programming-more public service, fewer commercials-and opposed the purchase of stations by corporations with no knowledge of radio. He dissents so often from his fellow commissioners' decisions that it is big news when he votes...
Only one or two short rehearsals will be necessary before the presentation, according to Van Lennep, Performances will be given in Harvard Stadium four evenings, July 1,2,3 and 4, unless rained out, in which case fewer performances will be scheduled...
...Sale" signs were appearing on small homes in Los Angeles, and in May there were 5% fewer sales than in April. Prices up 116% over 1940 levels had not yet started down. But banks were becoming cautious. Most of them now held their loans to about 35-50% of the purchase price. Thus buyers had to put up more cash. Example: last November on a $7,250 house banks would lend $3,600. Now the same house sells for $12,000, but most banks will lend only...
Instead of tackling all the 100 Great Books at once (actually a misnomer: there are fewer than 100 authors, many more than 100 titles), the extension school has picked out 15 authors to start with...