Word: notch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than cancer. Specialists call patients with high blood pressure "hypertensives." Dr. Irvine H. Page did not bother with these ABCs of the malady when last week he delivered a lecture in Manhattan on "The Nature and Treatment of Hypertension." Dr. Page, a top-notch high pressure man from Indianapolis, showed that great strides have been taken in his specialty in the short space of seven years. Doctors used to take a defeatist view of hypertension, ascribed it to the "mere ravages of physiologic aging." Treatment consisted mostly in keeping patients relaxed and calm by persuasion and drugs. Now there...
...second band is the Jones Brothers, which I wrote about in regard to Roscoe. Besides playing the right kind of jazz, these boys are really top-notch showmen, and their novelty numbers--which incidentally have been featured with Harry James and Duke Ellington--have that element of spontaneity and life which you'll only find in colored entertainment, and which is sadly lacking in the run-of-the-mill Boston floor show. Last week I went overboard for Roscoe's tenor work. I've heard him several times since then and still haven't eaten my words...
...time has come, the director said, to think of better movies and things. So he did. He combined an excellent, even superb, story with a top notch cast and set out to produce a masterpiece which was billed as "The Philadelphia Story." He had seen Katherine Hepburn in the stage production of the play and decided, correctly too, that she was the ultimate as far as the part of Tracy Lord was concerned. Next he hied himself over to the masculine department of the studio, picking out Gary Grant and Jimmy Stewart for the supporting male roles. Thus far this...
...ship is more strict than any the landlubber knows, yet it is a microcosm of the wider world and its hierarchical values. Upon this parallel, Marcus Goodrich has built the story of Delilah, a U. S. destroyer, a world of 71 men. By any standards, it is a top-notch yarn. But what frames the story, gives it symbolic sense, restrains the turbulent narrative from getting too diffuse, clarifies each character, even makes amends for the faulty structure of the plot, is the bony morality...
...Packed snow Littleton, N.H. Fair Poor 9 Monadnock Region, N.H. Cloudy Fair 7 Icy crust Newfound Region, N.H. Cloudy Good 22 Corn Surface North Conway, N.H. Cloudy Fair 10 Unbreakable crust North Woodstock, N.H. Cloudy Fair 10 Packed Snow Ossipee Region N.H. Cloudy Poor 10 Frozen granular Pinkham Notch N.H. Cloudy Poor 23 Breakable Crust Plymouth, N.H. Cloudy Poor 8 granular surface Quebec (Lac Reauport) Fair Good 46 Powder Stowe (Mt. Mausfield) Vt. Fair Good 29 to 62 Powder Sunapee Region, N.H. Cloudy Poor 17 Hardcrust Tamworth Region, N.H. Cloudy Poor 10 Frozen snow Waterville Valley, N.H. Cloudy Fair...