Would not such a ridiculous system of weights and measures paralyze exchange and demoralize industry?

The accepted system of weights and measures, the calendar-nothingwas too well tried to compete with innovation.

A uniform system of weights and measures.

Virtue and honesty are "a system of weights and measures, balances struck between man and man."

The difference between the result thus obtained and that from any system of weights is small, and may be neglected.

A new system of weights and measures, known as the metrical, was planned, and a new mode of reckoning time was introduced.

So Seligman will have to come up with a system of weights for combining his different objectives, and where will they come from?

The entire world-excludingUS citizens and a few headhunters in New Guinea whose system of weights and measures revolves around the human skull.

He gains the battle; he makes the code; he makes the system of weights and measures; he levels the Alps; he builds the road.

He fostered commerce by the construction of roads, by the establishment of an excellent police system , and introduced a uniform system of weights and measures.

But we have just seen that the annual expense of retaining the old system of weights and measures is over $300,000,000.

11 advocates the preservation of the Anglo-Saxon system of weights and measures.

The General Conference on Weights and Measures made it part of the International System of weights and measures in 1960.

With the Second Industrial Revolution stimulating world trade, the Treaty of the Meter established the International System of weights and measures in 1875.