Word: yardsticks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yardstick must be used without remorse...
...These great Government power projects will affect not only the development of agriculture and industry and mining in the sections they serve, but they will also prove useful yardsticks to measure the cost of power throughout the United States. It is my belief that the Government should proceed to lay down the first yardstick...
...things warm for Dictator Mussolini. Declared the German Dictator: "Memel was stolen from Germany and the robbery legalized by the League of Nations!" Indicating that for the present he will not try to seize Memel from Lithuania, Orator Hitler characteristically waved his olive branch: "There can be only one yardstick for our conduct, our great, unshakable love for peace...
...around with more regard for convenience than precision. Psychology is particularly vulnerable to such attacks from outside because there is so much intra-professional bickering. The famed Stanford-Binet "Intelligence Test" (determination of IQ) is under increasing fire from skeptics who hold that intelligence must be defined before a yardstick can be applied to it, that an individual's social value may be wholly unrelated to his IQ. These skeptics guffaw loudly when, every few months, some bright moppet turns up with an IQ claimed to be greater than Einstein's (TIME, Dec. 10). Lately the embattled proponents...
...dams is Government property and may, ruled the Court, be disposed of as freely as any other Government property. In four words the Court disposed of the argument that TVA does not aim at legitimate surplus sales but is primarily engaged in forcing down private rates by "yardstick" competition. The four words: "Its motives are immaterial." Businessmen were scratching their heads last week over this Court puzzler: "Of course, it is true that the U. S. Government cannot engage at will in private business, but it by no means follows that it cannot sell property which it owns, even though...