Did men become perfectionists as they grew older, polishing, polishing, reluctant to let go??

I cite it as evidence that he did not develop through new styles as he grew older ( as Yeats did ), but that he simply learned to use better what he already had.

As the twenties grew older, and as radio broadcasts of baseball games began to involve more and more people daily in the doings of the professionals, the great hitters ( always led by Babe Ruth ) overshadowed the game so that pitchers were nearly of no account.

As I grew older and was promoted, so was he, always where I was.

He grew up at the castle of his father, and was brought up alongside his older brother Esbern Snare and the young prince Valdemar, who later became King Valdemar I of Denmark.

As Lancaster grew older, he became increasingly plagued by atherosclerosis, barely surviving a routine gall bladder operation in January 1980.

As he grew older, he began commanding larger units of men and escalating his ambitions.

This was actually the formal name of a person, used by older people to address him, and the one he would use the most in the first decades of his life ( as the person grew older, younger generations would have to use one of the courtesy names instead ).

This ambiguity of character was further exacerbated by his remoteness, and as he grew older, he increasingly displayed a preference for solitude, which may have stemmed from his isolated upbringing.

As she grew older, Elizabeth became famous for her virginity, and a cult grew up around her which was celebrated in the portraits, pageants, and literature of the day.

Pinafore relied on stock character types, many of which were familiar from European opera ( and some of which grew out of Gilbert's earlier association with the German Reeds ): the heroic protagonist ( tenor ) and his love-interest ( soprano ); the older woman with a secret or a sharp tongue ( contralto ); the baffled lyric baritone — the girl's father ; and a classic villain ( bass-baritone ).

Because the group chose to adopt celibacy and their members grew older, more work gradually had to be hired out.

As he grew older, however, he became more deeply committed to Christianity and went on to study theology under Diodore of Tarsus, founder of the re-constituted School of Antioch.

As Ueshiba grew older, more skilled, and more spiritual in his outlook, his art also changed and became softer and more circular.

In addition, stations devoted to the pop music of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s on their own have developed as the audiences that grew up with that music grew older and nostalgic for the sounds of their youth.

As he grew older, Webster's attitudes changed from those of an optimistic revolutionary in the 1780s to those of a pessimistic critic of man and society by the 1820s.

However as he grew older his views became more typically Unitarian, though he rejected some of the views of Joseph Priestley and the Transcendentalists.

This trend was apparent in government statistics for the 1986-87 period: the proportion of people fifty years old or older living in farming communities grew from 28. 7 % in 1986 to 30. 6 % in 1987, while the number of people in their twenties living in farming communities declined from 11. 3 % to 10. 8 %.

The program initially focused on boys aged 11 to 18, but as the movement grew, the need became apparent for leader training and programs for younger boys, older boys, and girls.

Black suburbanization grew between 1970 and 1980 by 2. 6 % as a result of central city neighborhoods expanding into older neighborhoods vacated by whites.

She and Marshall had been unable to have children, and when she brought the baby home, Marshall told her that she could " keep him, provided he did not squall ..." Marshall grew to love the boy and wrote that he " never walked the streets of Washington with as sure a certainty as he walked into my heart ", and, as the boy grew older, that he was " beautiful as an angel ; brilliant beyond his years ; lovable from every standpoint.

at any rate, heat grew so intense in the main part of the house that it melted the window panes, and fused the K'ang-si pottery to cinders.

From 1980 to 2000 their GDP grew at average rate of 10 and 6 percent respectively.

Value of agricultural output grew at an average annual rate of 7. 1 % during 1968 – 73, but since 1975 the sector has been hampered by droughts ( 1975, 1977, and 1979 ), hurricanes ( in 1979 and 1980 ), and slumping world prices and quota allocations for sugar ( since 1985 ).

The 2001 American Religious Identification Survey ( ARIS ), which involved 50, 000 participants, reported that the number of participants in the survey identifying themselves as deists grew at the rate of 717 percent between 1990 and 2001.

This means that if GNP grew one point faster, the unemployment rate would be predicted to drop by. 94 points (- 1. 77 * 1 + 0. 83 ).

Industrial production doubled from 1950 to 1957, and gross national product grew at a rate of 9 or 10 % per year, providing the engine for economic growth of all of Western Europe.

As a result of favorable weather and market conditions beginning in 1995, however, the agricultural sector grew at a rate of 2. 6 percent annually, slightly above the average for Latin America during that period.

Economic growth, after a fall in 1991 to − 11. 9 %, gradually grew until the end of the 1990s at an average annual rate of 4. 2 %.

The population grew by 78 % from 52, 000 in 1973 to 93, 000 in 2005, an annual average growth rate of 1. 8 %.

Since Marx believed that surplus value appropriated from labour is the source of profits, he concluded that the rate of profit would fall even as the economy grew.

Real GDP grew at an average annual rate of less than 3 % per year for 1997 and 1998 and only 1 % in 1999.

A study of U. S. states showed that businesses ' annual and average payrolls grow faster and employment grew at a faster rate in states with a minimum wage.

National GDP grew at an average rate of 7 percent per year under his administration.

From the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, commodity CPUs grew in performance at a rate of about 60 % a year, but the speed of memory access grew at only 7 % a year.

From 1973 ( when construction began ) until 1982 ( when it ended ), gross domestic product grew more than 8 percent annually, double the rate for the previous decade and higher than growth rates in most other Latin American countries.

Real GDP grew at over 8 percent a year and exceeded 10 percent from 1976 to 1981 — a faster growth rate than in any other economy in Latin America.

In 2007, the Peruvian economy experienced a growth rate of 9 %, the largest in Latin America, and this repeated in 2008 with a 9. 8 % rate ; in 2006 and 2007, the Lima Stock Exchange grew by 185. 24 %

Gross domestic product grew by about 4. 8 % in 2000 and is expected to post a slightly lower rate of 4. 5 % in 2001, as export demand lags.

From 1981-1995, the economy grew at an annual rate of 7. 52 %, and the service sector became the largest sector at 51. 67 %, surpassing the industrial sector and becoming a major source of the economy's growth.

) The economy grew at an average rate of 7. 8 % between 2002 and 2005.

As instruments improved, the rate of discovery grew rapidly: by January 2000, a total of 257 had been discovered ; by May 2003, the number had grown to 1, 600. there are 3, 404 known Trojan asteroids at and 1, 759 at,

During his time in office the economy grew at an average rate of 4. 5 % per annum.

Vietnam ’ s economy continues to expand at an annual rate in excess of 7 %, one of the fastest growing in the world, but it grew from an extremely low base, as it suffered the crippling effect of the Vietnam War from the 1950s to the 1970s, as well as the austerity measures introduced in its aftermath.