Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...group--no more, no fewer can sing in the Dunces--will offer such numbers as "Lydia the Tattooed Lady," "With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm," and "Good Night Little Girl, Good Night," as it puts the finishing touches on a year that has included 25 singing engagements...
Hint from Histamine. Histamine, a natural body chemical, has long been a medical whipping boy, blamed by some for allergies, stomach ulcers and migraine headaches. For 35 years psychiatrists have wondered about its role in mental disorders. They had one puzzling clue: people with psychoses had fewer allergies. Four years ago, three Manhattan brother-psychiatrists, Drs. Arthur, Mortimer and Raymond Sackler, began treating patients with histamine. Last year they were joined by Dr. Johan van Ophuijsen, 67, pioneer Dutch Freudian who has been in the U.S. since...
...endorsement of the club system. These Council members also felt that the chartering of the new final club might lead to a flood of charter applications for more new final clubs, and would thus permit the final club system to affect a much greater number of students than the fewer than ten percent of the College who are now final club members...
...Fewer than 10,000 of the Communist faithful clustered in Milan's vast Piazza del Duomo last week under a roof of black, rain-spattered umbrellas. The square was two-thirds empty. Soggy onlookers drifted away for hot drinks in nearby cafes. In Rome, a damp crowd sang dispiritedly in the Piazza del Popolo. A newsboy hawked the Communist newspaper: "Here's Unità. If you can't read, stand under it." The Reds' May Day show in Italy, billed in advance as the biggest & best ever, was a sodden fizzle...
Only nine fewer men voted in yesterday's re-election, with 331 checked off on the voting lists, and 330 casting ballots. This one-vote discrepancy was a reduction from Thursday's 10-vote error...