test of value
Example Sentences
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Probably the best test of value is one with which I was familiar some years ago.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
With reference, then, to all articles sold in open market, it is safe to say that the only test of value is the price which the public is willing to pay.
From Rural Health and Welfare by George Thompson Fairchild
Man is not a mere worker, and efficiency is not the only test of value; the pursuit of truth and beauty for its own sake is a legitimate human ideal.
From Problems of Conduct by Durant Drake
Yet in spite of all these extreme fluctuations, no better test of value has been suggested than the market price in open, unrestrained competition of buyers and sellers.
From Rural Health and Welfare by George Thompson Fairchild
But a hundred volumes in order to raise £50 must sell at an average of ten shillings apiece, and in the light of such a test of value he regarded dismayfully the victims.
From Plashers Mead A Novel by Compton MacKenzie
