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Apparently not content with auditing the course, the unidentified youngsters soon decided to take over the instructor's role. Advancing to the front of the room, one of the girls attempted to restore order in the thoroughly startled class by brandishing a yardstick...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...