Word: topnotch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether or not Bunny Greenwood was the smartest boy in the world, there was no doubt that he was a topnotch prodigy. He did not begin to talk until he was 20 months old but when he did, according to his mentors, he rattled off complete, grammatical sentences. By his second birthday, with help from his letter blocks, none from his parents, he had taught himself to read. Bunny's most startling exploit occurred shortly after that when he sat down at a piano, worked out a system of musical notation, using a different number for each note. Today...
...TIME, Nov. 5, p. 10, there is this sentence: "Commander Belgrano is the first Legionary who never got to France with the A.E.F. to reach this topnotch position in the organization...
...Louis was picked for next year's meeting and a successor to National Commander Edward A. Hayes was named. He was Frank Nicholas Belgrano Jr., 39. of San Francisco. Commander Belgrano is the first Legionary who never got to France with the A. E. F. to reach this topnotch position in the organization. He entered Legion activities when he became a founder of Galileo Post in his hometown. A vice president of Bank of America National Trust & Savings Association, president of Pacific National Fire Insurance Co., Commander Belgrano kept discreet silence when the Bonus ruckus was shrilling about...
...topnotch independent clothing manufacturer whose buyers have also attended the Paris openings follows the same routine, except that he usually makes thousands of copies and sells to smaller retail stores. He it is who is responsible for the fact, that, within 30 days of the original showings, every shopgirl in the land is wearing a cheap imitation of what is the best Paris style...
There was not a single private railroad car in the yards of the Pennsylvania or Central of New Jersey at Atlantic City last week when the topnotch executives of every important Class I road in the land gathered to discuss the financial destiny of their industry...