Word: notch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...democracy's scientists have resisted destiny since 1939 is summed up this week by a top-notch science reporter, George W. Gray of the Rockefeller Foundation, in Science at War (Harper; $3). In 1939 the Germans had a big head start in war technology, but United Nations scientists have already outstripped them...
Brains and a Skunk. Despite its explosivelike expansion, the company has avoided the production headaches of many another aircraft plant because 1) it has an immense knowledge of what not to do in building planes; 2) Douglas has always surrounded himself with top-notch engineering brains; 3) Douglas picks a man for a job, then lets...
...formalities--a sort of dishwater affair about a soldier of 1918 vintage, his son, a girl or two, and some other people we didn't happen to notice. But despite the Hollywood additions, "This Is the Army" is still a stage show, a great spectacle with a top-notch array of talent. The soldier cherns makes like Fred Waring only better, and many of the individual stars are superb...
...more in keeping with our ideals than any other plan proposed so far. If someone with experience in domestic administration like ex-Governor Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota would promise to appoint him Secretary of State, they might well win the 1944 election and give us a top-notch government...
...notch speakers on surgery at the District of Columbia Medical Society's 15th Scientific Assembly last fortnight charged that many battlefront and home-front surgeons are not making full use of modern surgical knowledge. Said Lieut. Colonel B. Noland Carter of the Army Medical Corps: "In spite of directives and warnings, some surgeons still continue to close battle wounds. . . . Battle wounds should never be closed except in rarely specified instances...