Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apparently for psychological reasons, did better than a third group which got no pills at all. In the second six months, the vitamin-fed group pulled ahead. (Conclusion: taking extra vitamins usually shows no results for at least six months.) They had 19% less absenteeism, 27% less turnover (i.e., fewer quit or were fired); they also scored 2.6% higher in the company's merit ratings...
Victory in Europe did not end the demand for ambulance drivers, the American Field Service, has announced. AFS volunteers are still needed for the Burma front, yet fewer Harvard men have been going in recently than men from Yale, Princeton, or Dartmouth...
...high fever sometimes causes temporary human sterility. A 1943 survey in Galveston, Tex. showed that the rate of conception of babies is higher in cool seasons than in warm. Other investigators have reported that the fertility of white men is greatly reduced in the tropics, and even natives conceive fewer children in the hot months. Dr. Cowles believes it entirely possible that a sustained cycle of hot climate on the earth might radically change or even wipe out the human race...
Just as it was on the air, it is clear in the film that Fred Allen could be still funnier and much more fierce if he were taking a few million fewer people into account. The fact remains that Allen is not only a first-rate humorist but also the possessor of one of America's most honest, observant and murderously sardonic minds. That is one reason why so many people who shun most radio programs go out of their way to find...
...where stood the Japanese Navy? By last accounting it had five battleships, all too slow to have accompanied the Yamato in her sortie. There was little else-probably fewer than six carriers of any type, perhaps a half-dozen first-line cruisers, fewer than 20 destroyers. Gathered all together, it might add up to one not-so-fast task force-and what Japan needed now was a whole navy...