Word: notch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...India-rubber legs and the pantomimic face makes an otherwise modiocre revue well worth seeing. Unchallenged master of the soft-shoe dance, Ray brought the house down with his hilarious parodies of the latter-day rhumba and jitterbug, and then went on to display further talents as a top-notch practitioner of low comedy in several skits that would have done credit to the Old Howard in its better days...
Varsity golf sticks received their fifth victory notch of the season yesterday, when Boston University succumbed to a well-grooved Crimson team, 5 1/2 to 3 1/2, at Riverside Golf Course...
Visitors found only one flaw: the soloists were a notch below the rest of the production. The Moscow News critic, D. Rabinovich, had another complaint to make: the crowning of a Czar had been made altogether too happy an event. (Even Mussorgsky, no Communist, had not intended that.) Wrote Critic Rabinovich: "One does not feel the forced note in their 'gaiety'. . . the very magnificence of the coronation scene creates a false impression of brightness and joy instead of its being somber and sinister...
...armload of reports and charts, the new boss of Mexico's oil resources. Others were new to the game of politics. Antonio Ruiz Galindo, millionaire manufacturer of office furniture, was made' Minister of National Economy and placed in command of industrialization. Adolfo Orive de Alba, top-notch irrigation engineer, was appointed first Minister of Hydraulic Resources, allocated $200,000,000 and told to get started...
Training those men is the aim of the department's top-notch scientists and engineers, such as Chaffee, Alken, Pierce, Mimno, and Berry, and the members of the Physics faculty which alternates with ES&AP in giving the courses common to both fields. The curriculum covers the whole range of engineering sciences, and covers it well, but ten full courses, eight and a half of them prescribed, must be taken within the department...