Word: topnotch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...greatest Otello in Met history. Nor did it have the special attraction of Maria Callas (who scored a triumph the following night as the most convincing and moving Tosca of her time). Otello was merely excellent-and significant precisely because it was the kind of topnotch production that Rudolf Bing's Met can mount any night of the week it has a mind...
Died. Georges Rouault, 86, one of the world's topnotch modern painters; of uremia; in Paris...
...crack high school football player and for five seasons a baseball farm hand for the Cardinals. Soccer, says Rooney, gives him the biggest boot: "It's the speed and the pretty pass work and the extra little amount of roughness. I'm talking about really topnotch teams, though. Most people in this country see sandlot games that just look like a lot of people kicking each other...
When Carlson and his hard-working trustees proposed a topnotch science center and engineering college on Long Island, the regents said no. It was not until last week that, because of "recent developments abroad.'' the regents changed their minds. Though Carlson won his fight for a $250 million bond issue last fall, it was over the opposition of both the regents and the governor. He battled hard to keep the liberal-arts campus of Champlain College within the university system, but the campus was turned over to the Air Force as a SAC base...
...topnotch small college, a college to which any able boy should be glad to go, found that no less than 38% of those whom it accepted for admission declined. Similarly, a first-rate Ivy League university-again, a place to which any candidate ought to be happy to go-had 37% rejections. Another good college had 55% of their applicants refuse admission when it was offered...