Straightness

Home, Church, and School: The Politics of "Straightness" in Postwar Santa Clara County

Archive 2008-01-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008

Adds Tim'm West, an openly gay Bay Area rapper and activist, "Straightness is as crudely affixed to skill in hip-hop as the microphone."

Outing Hip-Hop 2008

- Straightness by. applying a batten onto the narrow face;. joining workpieces belonging together according to the light-gap method.

5. Planing of Narrow Faces Rolf Jakoby 1993

It excludes all Confidence in Commerce; allows of no such Thing as a Principle in Practice; supposes every Man to act upon other Reasons than what appears, and that there is no such Thing as a Straightness or Sincerity among Mankind: A Trick instead of Truth.

Part II. Of Refining upon Other Men’s Actions or Interests 1909

Straightness, for instance, symmetry, and rhythm are at first sensuously defined; they are characters arrested by æsthetic instinct; but they are the materials of mathematics.

The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907

Kindness and Straightness takes care of everything.

The Thing from the Lake 1903

We can not have the full meaning of Straightness, without going through a comparison of straight objects among themselves, and with their opposites, bent or crooked objects.

A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839

It excludes all Confidence in Commerce; allows of no such Thing as a Principle in Practice; supposes every Man to act upon other Reasons than what appears, and that there is no such Thing as a Straightness or Sincerity among Mankind: A Trick instead of Truth.

Some Fruits of Solitude 1693

Straightness of the grain and knot size are typically the two most detrimental characteristics to a piece of wood's strength.

SurvivalBlog.com 2010

So I got yet another email from some idiot claiming that my Purity Test was "crappy" because it said she was only 1.85% pure when it came to Straightness, and she's done a lot of fucking ...

Work-Related Thoughts 2005