The night before. the lottery, Mr. Summers and Mr. Graves made up the slips of paper and put them in the box, and it was. then taken to the safe of Mr. Summers' coal company and locked up until Mr. Summers was ready to take. it to the square next morning.
Full Definition of SURVIVALIST. : a person who advocates or practices survivalism; especially: one who has prepared to survive in the anarchy of an anticipated breakdown of society. â survivalist adjective. See survivalist defined for English-language learners.
A survival curve is a statistical picture of the survival experience of some group of patients in the form of a graph showing the precentage surviving versus time. A survival curve cannot be summed up with a single number such as the median survival or the five year survival, despite all too frequent attempts to do so.