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Word: topflighters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most brilliant performance of the year, Coach Bill Barclay's team closed its season with a 16-9 record, and tied Dartmouth for fourth place in the Ivy League with five wins and seven losses. It was a fitting climax for a well-coached team with not enough topflight personnel to be called exceptional...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Quintet Conquers Yale, 46-42, with Final Spurt | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

France's Pierre Lecomte du Noüy (rhymes roughly with dewey), a topflight biophysicist, is so convinced. Published last week was a 277-page record of his own internal "collision": Human Destiny (Longmans, Green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Telefinality | 2/24/1947 | See Source »

Besides Brindley, another in the series of topflight centers George Hauptfuhrer must oppose this season, the visitors' roster includes high-scoring Ed Leede, who plays alongside Paul Campbell at forward, and Captain Chip Coleman and Joe Sullivan, two competent ball-handlers, at the guards...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Barclay Five Meets Indian Team Tonight | 2/11/1947 | See Source »

Most of the topflight harpsich rdists are Landowska-trained: Switzerland's Isabel Nef, Italy's Ruggero Gerlin, London's Lucille Wallace, Los Angeles' Alice Ehlers, Manhattan's Sylvia Marlowe (who sometimes swings it) and Ralph Kirkpatrick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Harpsichordists out of Tune | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

Flint's performance was noteworthy in that he nosed out highly-regarded Haakon Lidman, of Sweden, and Bill Mitchell, a topflight entry from Indiana. Dillard set a new meet record in the 45-yard high hurdles at 5.6 trailed by a yard by Ted Sparrow, the Tufts athlete with whom Flint has been engaging in personal duels ever since prep school. Flint edged Sparrow in the Tufts-Northeastern- Harvard informal meet two weeks ago, but the Jumbo timber-topper reversed the process Saturday night...

Author: By Irvin M. Horowitz, | Title: Crimson Four Gains Victory In Mile Relay | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

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