Word: topnotch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed Dean Robert Maynard Hutchins of Yale Law School. Next day Hutchins telephoned from New Haven, hired Bill Douglas to teach law at Yale. There he was director of bankruptcy studies, collaborated with the Department of Commerce in the same field, did so well that he achieved the topnotch berth of Sterling Professor...
...before, was hopeless. But Bowman was getting nearer to his destined specialty. On his way to Detroit to take a job in an automobile plant, he met a chewing-gum salesman who was working the ''butcher knife deal." Within a year J. Warren Bowman himself was a topnotch gum salesman, exponent of the "Indian blanket deal" (one blanket with every 24 boxes) and part owner of a plant in Lansing, Mich., which turned out a 1? gum called "Ju-Ce-Kiss." In 1927 he started his own plant in Philadelphia, in 1929 produced Blony...
With all this complexity to go on, plus the fact that Deep Soundings is published by the remote Caxton Printers of Caldwell, Idaho, readers may find themselves wondering which of the topnotch U. S. adventure writers - Hawthorne, Daniel Eugene Cunningham, Zane Grey, Barrett Willoughby, Norman Reilly Raine, Ernest Haycox. Max Brand. Albert Richard Wet-jen-mysterious Alan Corby might...
...capstone to the Golden Gloves Boxing tournaments run by newspapers in three U. S. cities, the New York Daily News last week staged in Yankee Stadium its third international meet between selected U. S. Golden Glovers and eleven topnotch Italian amateurs. Cabled Il Duce: "Be tenacious, sporty and sprightly. . . ." In flocked some 55,000 fight fans, an estimated 70% of them Italian, began booing when Gavino Matta, Italy's flyweight champion, lost the second bout on the program to pint-sized Negro Bobby Carroll of Trenton. Only knockout of the evening was scored by Willie Smith, Harlem featherweight...
...competition but Joe Nee and Jim Gaffney of the Varsity gridmen will be in there with a Freshman named Tudor Gardiner. Just how these three will be divided up remains to be seen, but it makes little difference. Gardiner is really a good boxer, as well as a topnotch wrestier, and he is going to give the two big upperclassmen a run for their money...