"Rate of growth" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The rate of growth of population slowed up slightly after 1890, being twenty-one per cent. per decade, as contrasted with twenty-five per cent. from 1870 to 1890. The increases were distributed over a larger area during the later two decades, and aside from the industrial ...
— The United States Since The Civil War • Charles Ramsdell Lingley
... years after 1900 the rate of increase had fallen in the Middle West to about one half, and in the East to less than one third, of what it formerly had been.[89] It might be thought that, the country being now well served with secondary schools, the rate of growth must diminish. This may be true of a part of the rural districts, but an examination of the situation or school reports of our large cities will show how far it is from ...
— Socialism As It Is - A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement • William English Walling
... periodic succession of individuals on a diagram of activity with some advantage. Considering, first, the case of the unicellular organism reproducing by subdivision and recalling that conditions, definite and inevitable, oppose a limit to the rate of growth, ...
— The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays • J. (John) Joly
... food, his dress, his teething-rings, and his outgoing. He is weighed daily, and his nourishment is changed at once if he is a fraction either behind or ahead of what is deemed a normal and healthy rate of growth. American writers on the care of children give directions for the use of the most complex and time-devouring devices for the proper preparation of their food, and seem really to expect that mamma and nurse will ...
— The Land of Contrasts - A Briton's View of His American Kin • James Fullarton Muirhead
... away of little—a requirement which, therefore, restricts the exertion of body and mind in proportion to the rapidity of growth—a requirement which permits the mental and physical activities to increase only as fast as the rate of growth diminishes. ...
— Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects - Everyman's Library • Herbert Spencer |
