Word: yardsticks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prospective. There is, obviously, no Smithsonian Institute yardstick for the value of stocks. But by yardsticks usually employed, most U. S. Industry was selling last week on the theory that two, three or more years would elapse before Prosperity could be said to have returned. The actual facts were in no way alarming. Compared with other depression-years, the wonder was not that two houses had failed within the month but that many more firms had not failed months ago. Even such an arch-conservative as the New "York Times' Alexander Dana Noyes berated Wall Street for a pessimism...
...yardstick by which newspapers judge "what is news" is often mislaid when the story of a libel suit occurs. No matter how interesting to the public the facts might be, newspapers rarely mention legal action against themselves or their contemporaries, even if decided favorably to the Press; practically never if the verdict be adverse...
President Lowell has only recently deprecated the prevailing system of establishing the course as the unit of education instead of the student. Perhaps the two steps farther from this tendency are the tutorial system and the Divisional examinations. Both tend to minimize the value of the course as a yardstick, and in both may be the answer to intelligent ranking of a student's ability. To make the Divisional examination an oral one, and the only one of the four years is seemingly too idealistic. It implies a faith in the student to appreciate fully his ultimate aim in education...
Because 100 yards happens to be about the longest distance that a conditioned athlete can run in a single burst of full speed, it has long been the most important yardstick in U. S. track sports. European sprinters dash 100 metres (109.39 yds.). Successive generations of runners have succeeded, by study as well as sinew, in whittling down the yardstick infinitesimally. In 1906 the world's record for 100 yards was set at 9.6 sec. Last May Eddie Tolan, short, spectacled Negro student in the University of Michigan, ran 100 yards in 9.5 sec. in the Western Conference championships...
Lest anyone should suppose that this "parity" was worked out with the aid the once famed but now forgotten "Scientific Naval Yardstick" called for by President Hoover (TIME, May 6, et seq.), senator Robinson said: "Prolonged investigation of the subject led to the conclusion that no scientific basis exists for measuring the difference in value between large 8-inch gun cruisers and vessels carrying 6-inch guns...