Word: notch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foil the electrical detectors. Some have chemical rather than metallic fuses. One type has a soft plastic case which raises no hum in the electrical locators. To a probing bayonet, it feels like the surrounding earth. The new ratchet mine has a geared fuse wheel which moves around, a notch at a time, when a wheel goes over it. This mine can be set to go off after any number of vehicles (from one to 29) have passed safely...
This Saturday, the Varsity moves on to Camp Edwards to tangle with a top-notch aggregation. The Jayvees will remain at home, and their game will be held in the Indoor Athletic Building. They will also tangle with the Eliot House champions on Monday...
...culture. Produced in 1941 and starring Arturo de Cordoba, it twice won the Mexican Academy Award and was favorably received in New York. This is the first time it has been presented in Boston and if the experiment is a success the Spanish Club will continue to make top-notch productions available to the Harvard audience...
...first one gives Betty Fields a chance to act, and on that account alone is top-notch. It could even be a very good story if the moral, Beauty is a Force Within You, weren't pointed too obviously and too often. The second is also about a Force Within You, but this is a Force of a different color, an evil one. This Force appears as the mirror image of Edward G. Robinson and by its continual wise-cracking turns the story into a parody in spite of the intentions of the writer and the efforts of the actor...
...intellectuals today are a shabby, undernourished, despondent group who feel the cold. White-collar workers in Government offices and banks are a shade, better off: they are allowed to buy some of their necessities at low fixed prices. Labor is scarce enough to keep day wages just a notch behind the cost of living. Merchants, if they are skillful, fare best. There is money to be made and real wealth to be salted away against better postwar years. But those who do the best must be prepared to hear epithets like "hoarder" and "smuggler," must expect their neighbors to assume...