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They’re making the same case for an overall market that according to the traditional yardsticks is way overpriced.
TESLA IS THE PROXY FOR A STOCK MARKET GONE MADSHAWN TULLYJANUARY 21, 2021FORTUNE
Best of all for cosmologists, Gaia’s new catalogue includes the special stars whose distances serve as yardsticks for measuring all farther cosmological distances.
ASTRONOMERS GET THEIR WISH, AND A COSMIC CRISIS GETS WORSENATALIE WOLCHOVERDECEMBER 17, 2020QUANTA MAGAZINE
The explosion happens very quickly — too fast to mark its height accurately on a wall or yardstick.
STUDY ACID-BASE CHEMISTRY WITH AT-HOME VOLCANOESBETHANY BROOKSHIREOCTOBER 7, 2020SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTS
It's a musty old tradition, a sort of a remnant of the old days, that present day newsmongers use as a yardstick for comparisons.
DAVID LANNARCK, MIDGETGEORGE S. HARNEY
The cutaway is made of a small piece of board, a cigar-box lid, an old yardstick or a piece of lath, which should be about 6 in.
THE BOY MECHANIC, BOOK 2VARIOUS
They've got as many virtues as any Englisher that ever snivelled prayer and shortened yardstick.
THE YEOMAN ADVENTURERGEORGE W. GOUGH
I know I can squeal just like a rubber doll; but s'posin' they should let me fall off the yardstick—where'd I go to then?
DOTTY DIMPLE AT HOMESOPHIE MAY
The yardstick, the half bushel, and the coining of money are all devices to facilitate exchanges.
THE WORKS OF ROBERT G. INGERSOLL, VOL. 9 (OF 12)ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
We are told by those who believe in fiat money that gold is a measure of value just the same as a half bushel or a yardstick.
THE WORKS OF ROBERT G. INGERSOLL, VOL. 9 (OF 12)ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
Could I stand quietly by, and see him beaten with the hard, heavy yardstick?
MOLLY AND KITTYOLGA ESCHENBACH
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