Word: notch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ship ping this spring, but retracted when Minneapolis and St. Paul objected). Cargill has long boosted river shipping, contended the big obstacle was not shallow channels, but lack of the proper boats. At war's end, Cargill, for the first time, will have an efficient, top-notch yard to rectify that...
...suggests that her husband, if he is more man than mouse, will simply refuse to pay his income tax. She sells his beloved house to a high-pitched Russian soprano (oldtime Cinemantrap Olga Baclanova in a miscast comeback). Whenever her husband's long suffering slips a notch, Claudia gravitates to Mother with the velocity of an interplanetary rocket. It is plain that nothing but a miracle or the overwhelming facts of life could rescue Claudia from her mental bassinet. Author Rose Franken makes use of life's facts, to suggest, without really achieving, the miracle. She clouts Claudia...
...Roughly paralleling the U.S. Army's Short Guide to Great Britain in purpose, this handbook on American character was written by pale, pensive Louis MacNeice, 35-year-old Anglo-Irish poet, author of Plant and Phantom, Autumn Journal, etc. Since the war MacNeice has bloomed as a top-notch BBC script writer. He acquired American background in 1939 and 1940, when he traveled widely in the U.S., lecturing on literature, and gave a course at Cornell for one term. Some of his book let's suggestions...
Among jazz fans, and they seem to be plentiful on both sides of the quadrangle, the super colossal attraction is the appearance of a body of top-notch improvisers at Lowell House. Art Hodes and Mezz Mezzrow head the list of jam specialists, so don't be surprised if you see a mad dash in the direction of Lowell House right after inspection...
...production on the Navy's top-notch Corsair fighter (designed by Vought-Sikorsky, farmed out to Brewster), he started building them in the antiquated Long Island City plant, even though part of the wall had to be torn out to get the first completed ship...