yardstick

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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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Expansion Committee New York City Yardstick Sirs: I expect almost any day to find some singer calling herself "the original television girl."

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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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Be sure she is; I went over to the store this morning, the fust thing, to see if Bob Tape was about—he wasn't there—they said he'd gone to Boston on business for old Yardstick.

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