Word: notch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After years of experiment, ingenious North American Aviation has found a low-carbon, low-alloy steel suited for airplane wings, stabilizers, rudders, elevators, flaps and ailerons. Combined with a plywood fuselage, it makes a top-notch combat trainer, weighing only 3% (150 lb.) more than an aluminum ship. The aluminum saved on 1,000 steel-plywood jobs would make 420 sleek pursuit ships...
With the stern four of last June's boat intact and enough good material remaining from the 1941 Jayvees and Combos to guarantee high caliber oarsmen for the four vacant bow positions, there are plenty of indications that the 1942 eight will be a top-notch successer to last year's, the best crew Tom Bolles ever coached at Harvard...
Then Ferner placed second to no the last weekend, beating the number one intercollegiate downhill skier, Dartmouth's Bob Meservey, in one run and tying him for first in the eighth annual Appalachian Mountain Club race on the Wildeat Trail In Pinkham Notch Sunday...
Open to all University undergraduates with or without experience on skis, the annual Harvard ski race will draw over 40 men to the Sherburne Trail in Pinkham Notch next Sunday morning. Contestants will run the lower part of the Trail, dropping 1,100 feet in a little over a mile, in this informal race which has become a regular event on the Club's program...
...Saturday afternoon, the Third Class Proficiency Tests, one of the pre-requisites to receiving a "C" rating in the U. S. Eastern Amateur Ski Association, will be given by Bungie King and Tom Winship on the Pinkham Notch Practice Slope. To pass this test the skier must make four continuous stem turns, a right and a left stop Christie, and either two jump turns or two telemarks. In addition he must negotiate a prescribed slalom course in reasonable time...