Word: notch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reported war in Burma, India, North Africa, Malta, Sicily, Italy, been wounded at Salerno, recovered to get in the thick of the current European invasion. Still Time to Die is mostly expert, on-the-spot description of the battles he has seen. But it rises a notch above other able war reporting through Correspondent Belden's provocative summing up of what he has learned in his seven war-filled years. Some of the prime lessons...
Ellis Frothingham and Smith were the only Crimson men to break into the win column and the absence of regulars Levin, Ross, and Moulton proved too damaging a blow for Coach Arthur Douropulos' men, who faced a top-notch club sprinkled with former college stars...
Mozart: Symphony No. 34 In C Major, K. 338 (London Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Columbia; 6 sides). A top-notch Beecham interpretation, somewhat more ingratiating, some what less well recorded than Koussevitzky's brilliant Boston Symphony version...
...heat of afternoon and in the giddy shimmering waves that rose from the hills there was finally silence. The regimental commander said the Chinese would start attacking again in the evening. By morning, he promised us, we could go through the notch in the hills-the Japs would be cleaned...
...Worlds. But he had enough cash to make a spectacular splurge in the oil industry. He opened offices in Tulsa, hired a brace of top-notch geologists. He dazzled the industry by plunking out $100,000 for a 160-acre lease in Oklahoma which a farmer had bought for $200. Hawley sank two dry wells, gave up. Said his top geologist, H. L. Scott: "Frankly, that deal was one hell of a big mistake...