Word: fewness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"By a curious coincidence, a few years ago this same chauffeur with equal success, poured seven bullets from an automatic pistol into the body of the same much-appreciated lion tamer with similar results. Their affection is as remarkable as their marksmanship, 14 shots without a miss, and both protest...
Tennis is as tennis does. There was a certain amount of U. S. grumbling last week when the U. S. Wightman cup team permitted five English women, not including able Eileen Bennett,* to come within a few aces of keeping the trophy in the matches played at Forest Hills, L...
So that a few worthy persons might "learn one thing every day," William David Moffat, onetime Scribner executive, in 1912 gathered a group of learned men about him to dispense information. He called the group the Mentor Association and the dispensing medium, then hardly more than a pamphlet, The Mentor...
Ferdinand Magellan, first world circumnavigator, required three years (1519?22) for his sailing trip. Author Jules Verne's fictitious "Phileas Fogg" required 80 days; Nellie Bly, New York World reporter, 72 days (1889); U. S. Army planes, 175 days, of which 15 were actual flying days (1924); John Henry Mears...
There were many optimists, however, and not a few successes; Ransonx E. Olds, who alone has had two automobiles named after him (Reo?his initials?and Oldsmobile); Walter P. Chrysler, railroad shop superintendent who borrowed $4,300, bought an automobile and spent a winter taking it apart and putting it...