The highway was considered a yardstick by which limited-access highway construction would be measured. The purpose of a creed is to act as a yardstick of correct belief. Examples include length using a yardstick and mass using a weighing scale. Although owning land was the basic yardstick of wealth, farming there was socially despised. Most old Indian government universities have a yardstick of 75% as their distinction cut-off. Happiness and contentment became the ultimate yardstick of progress. Given his pattern half-dollar designs of 1859 as a yardstick, he could have done worse. With a handy yardstick, Felsenstein "moderated" meetings at the SLAC Auditorium. It looks much like an everyday yardstick. Bones can also be flat, for example by the cutting of a yardstick. The equivalent yardstick in North America is the D-PN, which is 91.1 for a Laser. This remained her yardstick in her subsequent biographical writings. The Laser Radial rig has a UK Portsmouth Yardstick number of 1139. The Laser 4.7 rig has a UK Portsmouth Yardstick number of 1200. The BLUE has a Portsmouth Yardstick of 1184.