For the most part, it was quickly evacuated by vomiting or purging, or, when retained for a longer period, was passed from the bowels unchanged.
Human beings are said to have a longer period of immaturity than other animals; but it is not prolonged childhood which distinguishes us so much as prolonged parenthood.
The biological advantage of a longer period of immaturity is in its cumulative value to the race, the older parent having more development to transmit.
Immaturity, biological advantage of a longer period of, 18.
It has seemed to me that the lower potencies lose in power as they are kept for a longer period; hence, I consider it safer to prepare them fresh every year.
Many think the addition of the hops aids in keeping the yeast sweet for a longer period.
Even with ordinary care, sound fruit will keep for quite a length of time; but it can be preserved in better condition and for a longer period by careful attention to the following practical points:-- 1.
Either these tables were originally inaccurate, or human life, in consequence of increased comforts, conveniences, and scientific aid, was extended to a longer period.
In the herbivora, however, the process of digestion is much more complicated, and occupies a longer period.
The length of time the ingredients should be digested in the spirit should never be less than 5 or 6 days, but a longer period is preferable when distillation is not employed.
If it is limited to circumscribed areas, it may continue to live for a shorter or longer period.
This state of well-being may continue for a year or two years, or even a longer period, after the first attack, the immunity varying according to the intensity of the inheritance or the habits of life.
Chronic dysentery is distinguished by the alterations which occur in inflammation developing more gradually and extending over a longer period of time.
After the duck eggs first pip there usually elapses a longer period of time before the ducklings get out of the shell than is the case with chicks.
Early in the season, brooding must be extended over a longer period.
Ducks which do not show this condition are thrown out and returned to the yards where they are fed for a longer period unless it is desired to ship them alive.
The Board replied that there were legal and insuperable objections to the granting of such a request and that they had no power under the law to give a lease for a longer period than 21 years.
On the other hand, it is exceedingly difficult to believe that these articles could have remained in the thicket specified, for a longer period than a single week--for a longer period than from one Sunday to the next.
It appears that fourteen days were as effective in producing changes as a longer period.
It is certainly for this reason that we see the subdorsal line in the immediate neighbourhood of the spots disappear at an early stage, whilst it is retained on the other segments for a longer period.
It is found in practice that fluids under pressure take a longer period to run clear than without pressure, and that ruptures of the media more frequently take place in the former case, or with pressure, than in the latter.
Fomentations are distinguished from lotions chiefly in being applied in a heated state, and in larger quantities, and for a longer period at a time.
As the last, but increasing the quantity of sulphur, and continuing the boiling for a longer period.
East from the Mississippi and for some distance west from it, much of the medium red clover will disappear after being grazed for one season, but the alsike, timothy and alfalfa will endure for a longer period.
Renewal in the South is more important, relatively, than in the North, as under some conditions the plants survive for a longer period in Southern soils.
Under some conditions, it is, in a sense, necessary to sow alfalfa in rows, and to give it cultivation during the first season and sometimes for a longer period.
Another effect of this personal equation of the observers is that the sound-vibrations apparently outrace those of longer period.
In all parts of the disturbed area, the shock maintained the same character of division into two parts, the second of which was of greater duration and intensity than the first and consisted of vibrations of longer period.
In this period of their life, during which they eat voraciously and cast their skin several times, insects live a shorter or longer period, some only a few days or weeks, others several months or years.
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