Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never married to a U. S. President, but her writings receive almost as wide attention throughout the land as do those of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt (see col. 1). Miss Thompson's husband, Novelist Sinclair Lewis, in his most famed book, Main Street, reached fewer U. S. voters than Miss Thompson reaches daily in her syndicated column On The Record (audience: 7,000,000). Last week Dorothy Thompson picked up a phrase by Herbert Hoover-"Ideas cannot be cured with battleships"-and retorted: "Ideas can certainly be spread and suppressed by the sword. . . . The spreading...
Other indexes like the New York Times', Business Week's, Barron's-using fewer and what are considered more sensitive components-report on business activity with less time lag, manage to agree closely with the F. R. B. curve...
...International League the Hoddermen are still holding down fourth place as the season nears the halfway mark. The Crimson icemen with four points to their credit, are at present trailing Queens, McGill, and Toronto, although they have played fewer League games than the Canadian teams...
...fastest skaters in the U. S. whizzed around Fowler Lake. The first day 50 Oconomowocians watched them. The second day only 25 showed up. The rest of the week, even though it was free and only a stone's throw from the centre of town, the spectacle attracted fewer and fewer onlookers...
That the world needs fewer farmers is "one of the harsh facts of these postwar years" and one "which is usually too delicate to discuss," Dr. Davis said...