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Word: fewer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kidding. Because the world champion Cleveland Indians had fewer weak spots than the rest, they were favorites to be the American League champions again. The Indians had been shrewder, and luckier, in filling another of baseball's great deficiencies: they had fresh pitching talent that could survive nine innings. They had big (6 ft. 3½ in.) Gene Bearden, who won 20 and lost 7 last year, plus assorted ablebodied veterans. In Manager Lou Boudreau they also had the smartest, hardest-hitting shortstop in baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: If Wishes Were Ballplayers | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...Negro centerfielder, Larry Doby. Speedster Doby showed plenty of promise last year until, toward the end of the season, pitchers made a discovery: a dust-off ball, thrown in an early inning, could upset Doby's stance for the rest of the day. Doby began to slam fewer clothesline drives to the fences. If he could learn to handle the treatment, baseballers thought he might even be another Joe DiMaggio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: If Wishes Were Ballplayers | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...trying to accomplish, and shape all their policies to the ends in view. This means planning. But it does not require any government to increase or decrease already existing controls over its own citizens. However, we believe that in the end this kind of planning will result in fewer rather than more controls, because it contributes to prosperity, and prosperity discourages regimentation, while depression invites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: America's Answer | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...equipment. Impressed, the French government planned to set up a "national center of productivity," to send 1,500 executives, engineers and workers to study methods in the U.S. (the Communists had so far blocked these plans). Ahead lay other plans for reorientation of France's economy-fewer vineyards and more wheatfields, heavy machinery instead of perfumes and fancy handbags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: ECAmericcms Abroad | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Massachusetts' three odd thousand compose nearly one third of the entire student body and the Empire State accounts for a quarter. The midwest sends definitely fewer students. It makes up little more than one tenth of the University population...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mass. Is Tops In University Registration | 3/26/1949 | See Source »

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