In pursuance of this resolve, he took up his residence in the Puritan town as Roger Chillingworth, without other introduction than the learning and intelligence of which he possessed more than a
common measure.
Six hundred beds of the
common measure were brought in carriages, and worked up in my house; a hundred and fifty of their beds, sewn together, made up the breadth and length; and these were four double: which, however, kept me but very indifferently from the hardness of the floor, that was of smooth stone.
All the dwellers in Starkfield, as in more notable communities, had had troubles enough of their own to make them comparatively indifferent to those of their neighbours; and though all conceded that Ethan Frome's had been beyond the
common measure, no one gave me an explanation of the look in his face which, as I persisted in thinking, neither poverty nor physical suffering could have put there.
I think I could still probably beat him in the 40 (yard dash, a
common measure of NFL speed).
In measuring the shifts in traffic congestion over these holiday periods, INRIX uses a version of the
common measure for congestion called the Travel
Lead researcher Holly Kramer, MD, MPH, and colleagues showed that waist circumference was more strongly linked to mortality than another
common measure of obesity, body mass index (BMI).
Responsible for collecting data, deploying a
common measure set, and reporting results, IHA represents the longest-running U.
The study was done with 20 women of ages 18 to 35, all of them healthy and seeking contraception, 10 of whom were of normal weight and 10 with a "body mass index" of more than 30 - a
common measure of obesity.
The most
common measure of smoking is self-assessment, which depends critically on participants' abilities to accurately remember and recall their own behavior for the course of a day or several days.
However, RBC has evolved to become a
common measure used by third parties to assess insurance company capital adequacy and is used extensively by insurers to communicate the strength of their capital levels.
pCR is a
common measure of neoadjuvant treatment effect in breast cancer and can be assessed more quickly than traditional endpoints in early stage breast cancer.
Current medical guidelines recommend ICD therapy for post-MI patients with an ejection fraction - a
common measure of the heart's pumping function - of 35 percent and below, and after at least 40 days have passed since their heart attack.
