Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 41% ( of the Chilean people make their living off the land, yet 60% of the arable ground is owned by fewer than 600 families. To the hacendados (landowners), Chile's ruling class, Candidate Ross is "the ablest financier on the continent" because, as Finance Minister under President Alessandri, he was able to hoist Chile from the World Depression and a private slump of her own without further burdening the huge land holdings...
...University Catalogue listed no fewer than 21 Murphies, of whom 12 were undergraduates and hen eligible for the awards. Of these five were chosen and a sixth grant went to a ringer by the name of Murphey. The awards were made with an eye to scholarship, the University confided, and since there were no Murphies, scholarly or otherwise, in the Junior class, two men from each of the other classes are today the richer...
...Fewer than one-third of women born since 1910 and only one-eighth of men were without sex experience at marriage, compared to nearly nine-tenths of the women and one-half the men born before 1890. If this trend continues at the same rate virginity at marriage will approach the vanishing point in about 20 years. Virginal couples have slightly higher chances for a happy marriage than others...
...throughout Europe, would mean the uprising of some thirty million persons who would break up the boundaries of Europe and give back chaos in return. That there should be so many people living on the wrong side of the frontiers is unfortunate, but at least there are seventy million fewer people today in such plight than there were twenty years ago. The eventual solution of the problem must come either from a gradual adjustment of claims by impartial plebiscites or from the setting up of absolute equality of races within a nation. Yet Hitler's recent Czechoslovakian move tends away...
...revolutionary words; they involve a great moral principle, imply a belief in plain citizens, and a greater degree of economic justice than any nation has ever possessed. If everyone acted upon them "we should not be saying that 'everybody ought to be equally rich'; but each year fewer of us would care whether we were rich...