Word: topflighters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...race is being sponsored by the Union Boat Club, under the direction a Quinby Taylor, a Boston attorney. It is the club's sim to start up a topflight Union crew, and Taylor hopes that today's race may stir up interest in such a crew. The club would like to enter the American Honley races with a boat good enough it place--manned by newly-graduated MIT and Harvard oarsmen...
...true that graduation saw the loss of the Crimson's powerhouse hammer and weight team consisting of Bob Forsyth, John Thorndike, Larry Ward and Howie Reed (who leaves in February). It's also true that Jaakko lost a fine runner in '49 captain Dave Humblett, and a topflight high jumper in Harrigan...
...level of the trolley tracks on the Coop side of the kiosk, thereby removing the hollow that was turned into a sea of mud and water almost every rainstorm. Davis, furthermore, is well aware of the student's plight in crossing Cambridge Street. He would like to see as topflight installed at that point, and is working for one at present...
Since then 46-year-old Miss Hepworth, wife of topflight Painter Ben Nicholson (TIME, Dec. 13) and mother of a 20-year-old son and 15-year-old triplets (two girls and a boy), has returned to the operating theater many times. In mask and gown she stood quietly observant behind doctors and nurses, pressing forward when one of her surgeon friends offered her a closer look. Back in her peaceful studio in St. Ives, Cornwall, she transferred her sharp-eyed observations to canvas...
Flair's Fleur, 39, who was a topflight advertising executive before she became the third wife of Publisher Cowles three years ago, will keep on doubling in brass as an associate editor of the picture magazine Look (circ. 3,075,000) and the three-month-old, capsule-sized newsweekly Quick, now up to 400,000, according to Mike Cowles...