Word: notch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lohr's ideas of popular science were unpopular with many top-notch scientists. Coldly received last week was his definition of the object of science & industry: "to supply better goods cheaper." Sniffed scholarly Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, dean of physical sciences at University of Chicago: "Faraday, as he discovered the laws of electricity, which are basic to electrical engineering, was not concerned with making better things cheaper. . . . A tragedy has occurred in the cultural life of our city...
...California's Hollywood Bowl, the Berkshire Festival, because of the polished perfection of its performances, still held its place as the No. 1 U. S. summer musical event. Its most ambitious undertaking this year: a performance of Bach's mighty B Minor Mass (with four top-notch soloists and a local chorus trained by Harvard's G. Wallace Woodworth) that would have made musical history anywhere...
Mozart: Symphony No. 38 in D Major ("Prague"), K. 504 (Chicago Symphony, Frederick Stock conducting; Columbia: 6 sides). A top-notch Mozart symphony recorded in top-notch style by Stock's long phonographically silent Chicagoans...
...temperature of .003°K. The method makes use of the principle that magnetization heats matter, demagnetization chills it. After preliminary cooling with liquid helium, the salt is magnetized, the heat thus generated drawn off into a jacket filled with helium vapor; then demagnetization pushes the substance down one notch further into the cold. But the limits of this method, as applied to the magnet ism of molecules, have been nearly reached...
This September, Manhattan sport fans may see Greyhound and other top-notch trotters on their fabulous neighboring island...