Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lofty lounges and paneled smoking rooms members perused the painful letter from Lord Simonds, their chairman: between 1942 and 1944, no fewer than 22 volumes had been purloined from the club's library, another 15 had been filched this year. Nor was that all. Of the eight copies of the London Times received each day, all but one were usually missing by evening. The weekly Times Literary Supplement and the Economist often disappeared for days at a time...
...Publishers' Weekly announced that there were 81 fewer titles published in the first half of the year than in the same period...
...Caplan gave shock treatments on an average of once a week to 15 patients who had continued to have more than two major fits a month after full doses of anticonvulsant drugs. Results: 1) eleven patients had fewer fits; one had only one in two months; 2) each patient in shock duplicated his natural fit, going through his own peculiar pattern of motion; 3) recovery from electric shock was quicker than from natural seizures, which often incapacitate a man for the day; 4) the remaining natural fits were less severe than before...
...rubber, a synthetic which has been in commercial production for only two years. Standard Oil Development Co.. which developed it, said that butyl has now had a thorough tryout by the Army. has proved its value. Butyl's great virtue is that its carbon molecules have far fewer loose (saturated) ends than natural rubber; hence it has better resistance to chemicals, sunlight and oxygen. When torn, butyl clings together so that when a tenpenny nail was driven into a tube that had run 35,000 miles, the tube stood up for miles without going flat...
Some of the motormakers were not happy with these quotas. Ford, for one, complained that its quota this fall would provide only four cars for each of its dealers, whereas the fewer dealers of some smaller companies would have many more. This kind of quota trouble should not affect many businesses. WPB plans to free members of most industries to turn out as much as they want on a catch-as-catch-can basis. This will not be possible with autos, because the industry is so greedy for steel that other industries would be crowded out. Nor will...