Lexicographical Neighbors of Footrule
Literary usage of Footrule
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Mental and Physical Tests: A Book of Directions Compiled with by Guy Montrose Whipple, ( (1915)
"This is accomplished, following the example of Krueger and Spearman, by applying
Spearman's 'footrule' formula for correlation (see Ch. Ill), though, ..."
2. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1912)
"Mrs. Brodie had almost blurted out "yes" before she remembered that the footrule
had still to be applied to Mr. Sheldon. He was affability itself, ..."
3. College and Commonwealth: And Other Educational Papers and Addresses by John Henry MacCracken (1920)
"He is not content, like a footrule used to measure Pardee Hall, to remain a footrule.
He is more likely to act the part of the dressmaker's collapsible form ..."
4. Spolia Zeylanica by Colombo Museum, National Museums of Sri Lanka, National Museums of Ceylon (1908)
"I took footrule measurements of the living material, which may be omitted ; in
general the height ranged from 5J to 6 inches. One specimen had two hinge ..."
5. The War of the Civilisations: Being the Record of a "foreign Devil's by George Lynch (1901)
"Supposing that they were Mars people that had suddenly been put in occupation of
China, we should of course proceed to measure the Martians by the footrule ..."
6. Problems of Life and Mind by George Henry Lewes (1874)
"We measure the distances and calculate the masses of the heavenly bodies, not
indeed with a footrule and balance, yet the footrule and ..."
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