Word: fewest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...completed, the magazine Motor gloated: 22,342,457 machines in the U. S., 11% more than in 1925, one for every five people in the country. Seven states registered more than a million cars each-New York (1,818,765), California, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Michigan and Texas. Nevada has fewest: 23,933. Many Busses. To motor bus manufacturers and operators, the statistics of an Interstate Commerce Commission report that appeared last week were pleasant. There are in the U. S. 22,368 busses listed as common carriers. They operate over 352,800 miles of roads. Also there...
...greatest number of cradles per family was set rocking in the rural districts of North Carolina-31.9 babies per 1,000. Rural Montana had the fewest-only 14.9 per 1,000 but there the death rate was very low, only...
...Eric has made fewer public speeches than any other man so much in the public eye. It has been said that his official utterances can be counted on the fingers of one hand. He appears in public on the fewest number of occasions possible, which accounts to some extent for the dearth of personal knowledge about him. He is "the quietest, most self-effacing...
...Union, there being one to every 181 persons there. Excepting D. C., lawyers are most plentifully assembled on and near the Pacific Coast. Nevada (with reason) has a lawyer for every 337 people. California, for every 507; Oregon, for every 550; Washington, for every 606. The lower South has fewest lawyers. And Pennsylvania has none too many, with a ratio of one to 1,285. All the lawyers in the country added together total 122,519. And of these New York has 18,473-more than twice the number in any other state...
...different matter. Like Helen of Troy's beauty, it is more often glowingly mentioned than accurately described. But three things might be said of it: it is technically practically flawless; it has beauty of color and vigorous line achieved with the fewest possible strokes; occasionally it fails in insight in spite of Sargent's far-famed "ability to render character." He is a marvelous ob- server of externals and sometimes- but not always-of inner truths about his sitters...