Elbow sizes are best measured with a caliper, which most health clubs or a doctor's office should have.

Hendley reached for his coffeecup and managed a frown best measured on the Richter scale.

The virtues of George S. Irving's Sir are best measured by what he does not do.

For conscripts like Sergeant Tkachuk, the paratrooper, the difference is measured best in nicotine.

Baseball's racial progress is perhaps best measured in the National League office.

But-just academically of course-I think he is perhaps best measured against the standards of instinct.

Problems of late bedtimes are best measured by recording the time the child goes to bed and soiling is best measured by frequency.

The durability of the revolution's goals is probably best measured two or five years from now.

But Mr. Clinton's delegation is perhaps best measured in airplanes.

Ciardi's impact on poetry is perhaps best measured through the younger poets whom he influenced as a teacher and as editor of The Saturday Review.