Word: topnotch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...topflight with Columbia's, Cornell's, Johns Hopkins', may expect a friendly eye from President Conant, long a frequent visitor to its laboratories. Failures are rare among its hand-picked students, limited to 125 per class. It has all Boston's hospitals for laboratory, most topnotch Boston doctors on its staff. The Medical School plumes itself on Elliott Carr Cutler, 45 (brain surgery); Walter Bradford Cannon, 62 (physiology); Hans Zinsser, 55 (bacteriology); Varaztad Hovannes Kazanjian, 54 (plastic surgery...
...today is not much superior to the quality of golf displayed by the outstanding players of the pre-war era when I won my first national title. The difference between these two periods, however, lies in the fact that in 1914 there were only about four or five topnotch golfers. Now, on the other hand, there are over a score of players of championship calibre and this number increases each year...
Enlisting the aid of Dr. W. M. Conant '79, who thereby became the Varsity's first physician, Stuart whipped his men into topnotch condition by stiff training unknown to previous teams...
...scientists last week called these three the leading women scientists of the country and the equals of 247 topnotch men selected from the names recorded in the forthcoming Biographical Directory of American Men of Science (fifth edition).* Dr. Benedict was "shocked'' at the small number of women named. Professor Morgan received the news with pleased surprise...
...more manageable group, he plans to start preparations for the hard season ahead. Already a program of intensive training has commenced, and the men in the squad have a vivid impression of the arduous routine work through which they will be put. They must be in topnotch shape for their first match, against M.I.T., scheduled for next Tuesday...