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The rates for the United States are separated
from the others becasue they are separated by
ten years instead of nine, like the others, and
moreover they do not refer to any Calender year
but to years of 365 day ending May 30. I have
taken no pains to get the best values of the
constants. So it would be a good exercise in
Least Squares to work these out. Of course, the
uniformity is only rough. It was quite
violated by Holland or Switzerland, countries that
I mark as bad because they diminished their
death rate in that novennium in a manner
wholly unauthorized by my rule.

The best way of settling the meaning of a word
is to take it in such a sense as shall

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