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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 ranl as [u]bad[/u] because they diminished their death rate in that novemium 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