Assertion: metric system | /r/CapableOf | send 100,000 petitions
Facets:
value: to congress
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: in 1927
type: TEMPORAL
value: with over seven million signatures
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The first attempt to have the US adopt the metric system was in the late 1920s by The General Federation of Women's Clubs for the US to adopt the metric system sending 100,000 petitions to Congress in 1927 with over seven million signatures.