Word: fewer
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Everyone knows that Jefferson Davis was President of the Confederate States. Few recall that previously he was Secretary of War in the Cabinet of President Franklin Pierce. Few Northerners realize he was an active visionary, a man unafraid to try to make his dreams come true. Still fewer people now alive remember the U. S. Army's curious Dromedary Episode, started by Jefferson Davis and last week still unended...
...much seen. New Era Motors received 150,000 shares of Moon in the deal, soon decided to oust the old Moon management. This was done. In the struggle, aided by tales of the cotton picker, Moon rose to $16? a share. But Ruxtons were never produced commercially and fewer Moons have been sold this year than last. Last week Moon stock, selling at 75 cents, was stricken from the New York Stock Exchange for failure to maintain a Manhattan transfer office. A total Moon eclipse was widely predicted. Last week an end came to New Era Motors with a voluntary...
...Princeton. First and foremost the players and coaches both want it. Word to this effect has been received from both New Haven and Princeton; while a recent informal survey of Harvard's squad and coaching staff indicates the same generally prevailing opinion. The men feel that injuries would be fewer, and that they would be able to meet on something approaching an even basis their early season rivals, who begin practice earlier...
...more places from Chicago than from any other city." It is also true that: Chicago newspapers have played-up Chicago's underworld most persistently and sensationally; Chicago's murders have been most sensational intrinsically (viz. the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, 1929); Chicago has had fewer policemen and more nationally-known criminals per square mile than any U. S. city; crime in Chicago is more highly organized than anywhere else in the world...
...hard conditions in the business world at present, there are fewer jobs to be had than is usually the case, and for this reason men are urged to lose no time in consulting the Placement Service, which can arrange interviews and consultations with business men in all branches of occupation, with only ample time as a requisite. Beginning in February recruiters arrive in Cambridge, and continue to come until June...