Word: meter
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...notable features of the play is Leslie Howard's anglicised delivery of American colloquialism. Another is a polite flirtation in a taxicab, to the accompaniment of a clicking meter. The weather is unpleasant in the first act, but the rain is not nearly as wet as that in the play named after...
...meter run (indoor): Willie Ritola, Finnish-American...
...United States government has already taken steps for the adoption of the metric system, and now conducts all surveys and map work by it. The familiar "Buffalo Nickel" has the standard weight of five grams. The foot and the "lb." are, by law, expressed as fractions of the meter and kilogram. And beyond this, in the field of electrical engineering, all measurements are based on the "centimeter, gram, second" system; while many prominent manufacturing concerns have already adopted it. Only the force of inertia always present in the "great American public" has prevented its general acceptance...
...uprooting a firmly established "system" and installing a new one in its stead, that causes the difficulty. In British Columbia with the change from left to right it has been found necessary to set up new sign-posts over three thousand miles of road, and the introduction of the meter to America would cause a great many minor changes.--but like Arabic numerals, the metric system is sure to be universally accepted sooner or later...
...obscurely hinting at the concluding incidents instead of recounting them lucidly. Curiously enough, although Mr. Morrison's "Loaves and Fishes" is the only story not marked by too great an emphasis upon this method of suggestion, the verse that he contributes, a "Sonnet", in addition to certain faults of meter and metaphorical language, lapses into the enigmatical. A little study, of course, reveals the meaning, and the trouble here seems to be not so much an exaggeration of "suggestiveness" as the fact that the writer has not sufficiently defined his thought in his own mind. The habit of implying rather...