Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Crimson right fielder, Bob Capaccio, played a bang-up game despite a bandaged left hand. Wallace was very fast, but he lacked control in some spots. Alert base running paved the way for several Crimson markers. Kidder might have escaped the disastrous fourth inning with fewer runs scored against him except for a bad-hop grounder that skidded freakishly over the Tufts shortstop's head. The Jumbo dugout jockeys had quite a lot of comment for so few runs. HARVARD ab h po a Falsey, ss 4 1 5 3 Williams, cf 5 0 2 0 Coulson...
...Fewer Kicks. On the Emperor's order, Yonai shared with Koiso the responsibility for organizing the new Cabinet. One result: the Navy may now hope to be kicked around less by the bossy Army. Yonai could always cite his record in the Hiranuma government. He resisted the formation of the Axis at that time, postponed it a year by insisting: "The Japanese Navy belongs to the Emperor; it is not for hire, by Hitler or anyone else...
...thinks there should be an Order of the Heroic Father." A Komsomol girl suggested a new slogan: "More children, fewer careers...
Albert Einstein's position as one of the great popular idols of the 20th Century is a historic phenomenon of hero worship. Few of his millions of admirers understand his relativity theory, fewer still have any notion of how it might benefit mankind. He has been called atheist, radical, many another hard name. Yet Manhattan's famed Riverside Church has already enshrined him in stone among the great scientists of all time, and conservative heads of state delight to honor...
...Postwar demand for goods is likely for a year or more to test the productive capacity of U.S. industry. With 57 million people working 7.5% fewer hours, the out put of goods would fall short by a small margin of meeting the probable demand." So prophesied Harvard's ruddy econo mist Sumner H. Slichter in Chicago last week, before some 200 regional chairmen of the Committee for Economic Development. To support his thesis Slichter fired a series of cold facts...