Word: steep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steep rise does not continue long. The death rate goes on dropping, as better medical services become available; but the birth rate drops too, and the curve of population increase levels off. In some cases the population actually declines. Nearly every industrialized nation has passed through these stages. Industrial Britain's population rate curve resembles strikingly the curve of industrial Japan (see map). Britain has reached, and Japan has almost reached, a stable population level...
After the flowery speeches, the old explorer climbed the steep slopes of Machu Picchu to show his friends one of the New World's greatest archeological glories. Here was the granite observatory where Inca priests marked the solstices and claimed, each June 21 (when their freezing subjects feared midwinter starvation), that they had tied the sun to a stone. There stood the Emperor's palace, and beyond, the convent of the Vestals of the Sun. Just below were the terraces, where corn, potatoes and tomatoes grew long before the white man ever heard of them...
...water (we supplied our own soap), and occasional nursemaids were available for the children, who can stand just so much sightseeing and no more. Our only fiscal misadventure occurred in Paris, where I had to pay the hotel bill in a hurry to make the airport. It seemed rather steep, and I found later that they had inadvertently thrown in all the previous day's laundry bills for other tenants of the small hotel. The matter has since been adjusted. By the time we got to London the children's shoes were worn through and, shoe rationing having...
Georgia O'Keeffe spends half of each year in Manhattan and the other six months in New Mexico's canyon country -an equally steep and angular land. She has painted both homes with appropriate simplicity. Her Manhattan oils (many of them done from a window of the midtown Hotel Shelton) were pavement-hard and needle-sharp...
Friendly Erosion. Erosion is another menace that Dr. Kellogg thinks has been oversold. Some soils erode badly, he says, but others do not, even on steep, long-cultivated slopes. Great gullies cutting through a field destroy its value, but gradual erosion does little harm and may even be beneficial. When the topsoil washes gradually away, the subsoil may turn into topsoil with renewed fertility. "Much [erosion]," says Dr. Kellogg, "is a perfectly normal concomitant of mountain building and wearing down ... An important part is essential to the formation of productive soils. One cannot, or should not, try to stop erosion...