Word: notch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bring down to concrete instances the human distress he finds represented by astronomical figures, without making the prospect so hopeless as to contribute to the defeatism he condemns. At Portland, heart of the region where soil erosion has been a popular subject, Candidate Dewey lifted the campaign up a notch by talking about the erosion of capital: the U. S. industrial plant wears out at the rate of about $6,000,000,000 a year, said he; in six years of the New Deal the grand total of capital put into the productive plant was only...
...Crimson manifestly did not come through with the breaks, as match after match went against them. In every case they were wrestling some of the best grapplers in the East, and while many of the Crimson wrestlers are top notch the balance must turn...
They will see and hear much more. Brilliantly directed by William Dieterle (The Story of Louis Pasteur, The Life of Emile Zola) and acted by a top-notch cast, The Magic Bullet is another refutation of critics who say Hollywood is allergic to social content in films. Like Pasteur and Zola, The Magic Bullet is loaded with social meaning. Like them, it is first and foremost absorbing entertainment...
...position, met last night, and the Lions won, 48 to 34. This leaves the Crimson in sixth, with one win and three losses, a half a game both from fifth and from seventh. A win or loss tonight will send the team either up or down one notch...
...Ohio State is a member of the Association of American Universities, the nation's top-notch rating group whose select circle includes only thirty-odd universities and whose standards of admission and tenure are high and strict. Yet, during the recent holidays, Ohio State was host and manager, for the third time, of the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Yet, just before your article was written, Ohio State professors were named to head three nationally distinguished groups: the American Botanical Society, the American Association for Applied Psychology and the American Chemical Society. This...