Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inability to understand women, says Scheinfeld, is largely biological. The more scientists study the question, the more fundamental differences they find between men & women. Girl babies are generally born five to nine days sooner than boys; they teethe and talk earlier; their bones harden sooner; they have fewer red corpuscles and a faster pulse; they are more emotional (more active thyroid glands); they mature more rapidly. A girl sleeps more than a boy, needs less food, has a lower metabolism rate, is warmer in winter (because of better insulation) and cooler in summer...
...Stout Defense. Allied military sources credited the Nazis with 40 full-strength divisions-about 600,000 men-stretched along the 500-mile front from Switzerland to the North Sea. Eisenhower's men outnumbered them at least threefold, perhaps fivefold. Moreover, fewer than half the German units were first-class troops. Many of those holding fixed positions in the West Wall were barrel-scrapings : convalescents, striplings, oldsters, men with stomach trouble, ear trouble, eye trouble-even chronic alcoholics...
...Almost half of the nation's 842,000 teachers are new at the job since Pearl Harbor; fewer & fewer teachers can see any sense in working for less than a living wage...
Lone Game. Actually this sanction was puny punitive step that shocked Argentina's pride more than it hurt the Argentine pocketbook. A point not made in the State Department bugle-call statement about its action was that only eight, or fewer, U.S. ships a month had been calling at Argentine ports. Most Argentine exports to the U.S. have been carried in Argentine bottoms, which are still free to enter U.S. ports. Latin American and Brit ish ships continue their brisk trade with Argentina...
Some economists have regarded the steady expansion of the service industries as a parasitic growth. Social Scientist Grattan rebuts the theory that service industries create no new wealth as "antiquated nonsense." To Grattan, who realizes that technological improvements tend steadily to reduce factory work toward button-pushing by fewer & fewer workers, a higher standard of living means many more services, and thus more opportunity for employment outside factories...