Word: totality
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...first and second teams of the Middlesex Sportsman's Club. Shoots for the championship of the league will be held, every second Saturday until May 27. Cups will be awarded to the members of the winning team, an individual prize to the man who makes the highest total score in all the shoots, and a special prize to the man who makes the lowest total score. The teams will be composed of five men, each of whom will shoot at fifty birds at a distance of sixteen yards, under Interstate Association rules...
...have long realized the importance of vital statistics, which the United States did not seriously consider until the last census. On the records then obtained, however incomplete, we may base a comparison of the populations of Europe and the United States. Europe, which comprises only one-fifteenth of the total land area of the world, supports one-fourth of its population. At present the rate of increase of population in the United States is nearly twice as large as that of Europe, but the two are gradually approximating. He then went on to show that the heavy influx of immigrants...
...statistics of the birth and death rates throughout the United States. The census results, which furnish the only means of ascertaining the vital statistics of the rural population, are inaccurate. According to the census statistics, the annual death rate in the United States is 16.3 per cent, of the total population. Professor Willcox, however, after a careful calculation of possible errors, places the death rate at 19.56 per cent, of the population. It is interesting to observe that the death rate of negroes is in some states 60 per cent, higher than that of whites. From 1890 to 1900 there...
...total cost of the well was about $4,500, but its use saves the Dining Association $150 per month. This is principally due to the fact that the ammonia coils require a large amount of water, which, when purchased from the city, was a heavy expense. The well is eight inches in diameter and 320 feet deep, 260 feet being through solid rock. A wrought iron pipe extends to the rock 80 feet below the surface and keeps the water free from impurities...
...kitchen, serving-room, pantry, china-closet, housekeeper's room, furnace room, and a locker room which will contain 450 lockers. An arcade connects the first floor with the gymnasium, which is near by. The building will be provided with steam heat and electric and gas lights. The total cost will be about...