yardstick

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Reasons: greatest issue will be public ownership of public utilities and extension of present "Yardstick" undertakings.

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S. negotiations has been application of the so-called "Hoover Naval Yardstick," a system of evaluating the combatant strengths of fleets in terms of gun power as well as tons.

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Reports on municipal bonds were to be furnished by a bureau known as the Municipal Yardstick.

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This week Handicapper Plaut pored over his form charts for 1920�Man o' War's big year�and came up with a 1920 Yardstick.

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Oh, it was getting to be a Yardstick world, and no mistake.

From This Crowded Earth by Bloch, Robert