Word: topnotcher
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...Cornell at 20. More interested in law than in religion, he changed his mind during his first year at Cornell. Thereafter John R. Mott's work was for Christ. He began Y. M. C. A. work as Cornell vice president in 1885. By 1915 he was holding the topnotch job of international general secretary. He helped build the Student Volunteer Movement (for foreign missions), is the only man alive who has attended each & every one of its conferences since the first pre-organization meeting under Dwight Lyman Moody in 1886 at Mt. Hermon, Mass. At Vadstena Castle in Sweden...
...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...
...first vice president when Thomas George Lee was made president of Armour & Co. in 1931. Vice President Armour thought he deserved the topnotch job. When the directors offered him an impotent vice-chairmanship, "P. D." III resigned in a huff. And for the first time since the Founding "P. D." went to Chicago shortly after the Civil War, Armour had no Armour executives. Two second cousins of "P. D." III and Lester stayed on as directors (and were re-elected last week) but the grandsons of "P. D.'' were...
...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...