Word: standardness
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...Standard" and "Excelsior...
...Facts do not justify fear of disaster due to the coinage of standard silver dollars, much less do they justify fear of immediate danger from that cause.- Laughlin's Bi-metallism, ch. xiii and xiv; Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 1, p. 326; North American Review...
According to Mr. E. G. Ravenstein, the English foot is used as the standard of length by countries having 471,000,000 inhabitants, the metre by 347,091,000 people, and the Castilian foot by 5,905,000. Denmark and Russia are the only countries in continental Europe which have not adopted the metre...
...Standard" and "Excelsior." BLANK AND ACCOUNT BOOKS, In extra bindings...
...regular courses of instruction at Yale were not printed until 1822; so that there is for the writer no available record of the standard of historical studies before that time. Judging from the actual status of that year, considerable attention must have been given to classical history, through the medium of ancient historians and Adams Roman Antiquities. Yale College has always been a stronghold of classical culture. During the first half of the nineteen century probably more students, both at Harvard and Yale, were fed upon the Scotch diet than upon any other historical material. When one contrasts...