[Ads-l] Ever pondered this question?

[Wilson Gray]

An old Army buddy, Nolan, writes about another old Army buddy, Bill:
"He believed that _few_ was greater than _several_ and, as recently as last
week, I've been asking people about that comparison."

That is to say that he's been pondering this question since we were
students at the Army Language School, in 1960!

FWIW, IMO, _few_ is *less* than _several_.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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