Yardstick

Tolstoy also wrote a long, strange story called "Yardstick," the name of the horse and the most imaginative, original, knowing horse narrative in literary history.

Celebrities Hardwick, Elizabeth 2001

Trying to judge all countries by the Western "Yardstick" whether is Press Freedom, Human

The Guardian World News Sohrab Ahmari 2010

But in any case, the assumption underlying your question is that income is the One True Yardstick by which a person's tax burden is to be measured, and it's not at all clear why this should be the case.

The Distribution of Consumer Spending, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

WikiPedia is now the Yardstick to measure the truth and reality?

Ladies And Gentlemen, I Present You With: “The Progressive Left” « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009

The Yardstick calculated that we have a 1.7 efficiency score on a scale of 1 to 10 (oops).

A Quest for an Energy-Efficient House 2008

Under the Home Energy Yardstick section, you submit information like your home's square footage and the year it was built, as well as gas and electricity use, and the site will tell you what percentage of homes use more energy than yours and offer more tips on how to conserve.

Our Reporters Offer 2007

I know that up until a few years ago, no Yardstick held any public office or government position.

This Crowded Earth Robert Bloch 1955

We'll have Yardstick government then, all the way, and Yardstick law.

This Crowded Earth Robert Bloch 1955

But the most common name was the one that stuck -- Yardstick.

This Crowded Earth Robert Bloch 1955

Yardstick children, they tell us, were healthy at first.

This Crowded Earth Robert Bloch 1955