Obtain a tire gauge from an auto store or auto department of a hardware store.
The best body model for Franklin, it happened, was Mr. Smock, who, as a former historian of the House of Representatives, knew that Franklin's girth could be gauged from a brown silk suit of his that survives at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
The precise calibre of her misery can be gauged from a glance at her bedside reading, which starts with a copy of Djuna Barnes's "Nightwood" and gets even gloomier, if that is possible.
A lot of what has been done to bring this collection into the twenty-first century can't be gauged from a tour of the premises, as Massimo Ceresa, the librarian who showed me around, reminded me.
Just how widely these are dispersed industrially can be gauged from a letter sent out from an office of the Food and Drug Administration in 1992, asking manufacturers of dietary supplements to check the sources of bovine "neural and glandular tissue(s) or tissues extracts" to make sure they were not contaminated.
On the other hand, EPA did inhibit diaphragm calpain I activation, as evidenced by the fact this agent reduced both formation of active cleaved calpain I protein and reduced diaphragm calpain activity as gauged from a fluorogenic activity assay.
A measure of the meaning Abramson finds in history, and in her appointment, can be gauged from an old framed photograph she used to exhibit in her managing editor's office of the third woman reporter ever to work for the newspaper, at the start of the last century.
Tyco and its bankers busily spent yesterday trying to gauge interest from a group of seemingly reluctant suitors for CIT, formerly known as Tyco Capital, including GE Capital, General Electric's finance unit; Citigroup, a major Tyco creditor; the FleetBoston Financial Corporation Wells Fargoo and several other companies, according to executives close to the discussions.
