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.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Reasons: greatest issue will be public ownership of public utilities and extension of present "Yardstick" undertakings.
From Time Magazine Archive
Expansion Committee New York City Yardstick Sirs: I expect almost any day to find some singer calling herself "the original television girl."
From Time Magazine Archive
Oh, it was getting to be a Yardstick world, and no mistake.
From This Crowded Earth by Bloch, Robert
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