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Word: yardsticks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...state of Ohio is a favorite yardstick of pollsters. Says George Gallup: almost any county in Ohio is likely to be representative of communities of similar composition in the U.S. as a whole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Neuroses Out of Town | 3/31/1947 | See Source »

...standard yardstick" of music, to which instruments are tuned, is the "true A": a note with 440 vibrations a second. Musicians have now acquired an accurate, electronic gadget for sounding their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sound Your A | 3/24/1947 | See Source »

...Brownsville, Tex., a bus driver figured out a yardstick for determining a child's age no matter what his mother said. "I look at their teeth. If they have a full set, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Feb. 24, 1947 | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

...income of $2500 or less, the inadequacies of small scholarships amounting to a quarter or a half of the total expense becomes manifest." If the National Scholarships are to continue to fill the role cut out for them by this picture of necessity, they must be measured against the yardstick of original purpose, especially in a period when the individual cost of education looms up as a national problem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three-fourths of a Nation | 2/15/1947 | See Source »

...think," Walter declared, "the Supreme Court ought to recall that case, assume jurisdiction again, and lay down a clearcut yardstick. The Supreme Court would be derelict in its duty to the people generally if it did not do that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Begins Hearings on Portal Suits; Tel Aviv Official Reports British Set Seven-Day Ultimatum | 2/4/1947 | See Source »

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